The Logical Alien / / ed. by Sofia Miguens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Benoist, Jocelyn,; Boyle, Matthew,; Conant, James,; Gustafsson, Martin,; Hamawaki, Arata,; Miguens, Sofia,; Moore, A. W.,; Stroud, Barry,; Sullivan, Peter,; Travis, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Miguens, Sofia,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (944 p.)

Is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Kant to Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question. This volume brings together nine distinguished thinkers on the subject, including James Conant, author of the seminal paper "The Search for Logically Alien Thought."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PART I. THE BOUNDS OF JUDGMENT -- Introduction: Basic Necessities (or: The Shape of Thought) -- The Search for Logically Alien Thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege, and the Tractatus -- What Descartes Ought to Have Thought about Modality -- Kant on Logic and the Laws of the Understanding -- Cartesian Skepticism, Kantian Skepticism, and Two Conceptions of Self-Consciousness -- Logical Aliens and the "Ground" of Logical Necessity -- Varieties of Alien Thought -- Wittgenstein on Using Language and Playing Chess: The Breakdown of an Analogy and Its Consequences -- Where Words Fail -- Alien Meaning and Alienated Meaning -- PART II. THE LOGICAL ALIEN REVISITED: AFTERTHOUGHTS AND RESPONSES -- Introduction: On How History of Philosophy Can Be Illuminating -- Section I: Who Is the Author of These Afterthoughts and Responses? -- Section II: A History of Philosophy That Challenges Contemporary Preconceptions -- Section III: Some Aspects of Conant's Version of the History -- Section IV: Theological Sources of Modern Conceptions of Logic -- Section V: Leibnizian versus Kantian Conceptions of Logic -- Section VI: A Resolute Reading of Descartes -- Section VII: Reply to Moore: Descartes on the Relation of the Possible to the Actual -- Section VIII: Reply to Boyle: Kant on the Relation of a Rational Capacity to Its Acts -- Section IX: Reply to Hamawaki: On the Relation of Cartesian to Kantian Skepticism and the Relation of Consciousness to Self-Consciousness -- Section X: Reply to Hamawaki and Stroud on Transcendental Arguments, Idealism, and the Kantian Solution of the Problem of Philosophy -- Section XI: Reply to Stroud on Kant and Frege: On the Relation of Thought to Judgment -- Section XII: Reply to Sullivan: Frege on the Priority of Logic to Everything -- Section XIII: Reply to Gustafsson: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Sign to Symbol -- Section XIV: Reply to Travis: Wittgenstein on the Non-Relation of Thinking to Being -- Section XV: Reply to Benoist: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Language to Life -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects