In this paper, I aim to present the main components of my non-standard interpretation of Frege’s views on existence to the English-speaking public. First, I will outline the standard interpretation and show how to a great but not full extent the standard interpretation can be justified on the basis of Frege’s writings. Second, I show that the main error of the standard interpretation consists in the assimilation of the contents of the ordinary language expressions “exist” and “there is” according to (...) Frege. Third, I evaluate possible sources for this unfounded assimilation. After that, I outline my alternative interpretation that distinguishes in opposition to other non-standard interpretations between a substantive and a deflationary part of Frege’s complete conception of existence in analogy to Frege’s analysis of truth and negation. Fifthly, I justify my interpretation by the reconstruction of a so far overlooked master argument of Frege against the above-mentioned assimilation. In the last section, I introduce and discuss five objections against my interpretation that came to my attention. (shrink)

In times of current crisis, the voices of women are needed more than ever. The accumulation of war and environmental catastrophes teaches us that exploitation of people and nature through violent appropriation and enrichment for the sake of short-term self-interest exacts its price. This book presents contributions on the currently most relevant and most urgent issues: reshaping the economy, environmental problems, technology and the re-reading of history from the non-western and western tradition. With an outlook into the problems of class, (...) race and gender in its intersectional framing, the collection offers a unique overview of current research in these fields and contributes to the renewal and contemporary presentation of feminist thought from partly concrete perspectives with regard to factual issues. (shrink)

In the earliest phase of his logical investigations, Peirce adopts Mill's doctrine of real Kinds as discussed in the System of Logic and adapts it to the logical conceptions he was then developing. In Peirce's definition of natural class, a crucial role is played by the notion of information: a natural class is a class of which some non-analytical proposition is true. In Peirce's hands, Mill's distinction between connotative and non-connotative terms becomes a distinction between symbolic and informative and pseudo-symbolic (...) and non-informative forms of representation. A symbol is for Peirce a representation which has information. Just as for Mill all names of Kind connote their being such, so for Peirce all symbols profess to correspond to a natural class. (shrink)

In this paper I argue for a strong continuity between the transcendental deduction of the principle of purposiveness of nature and the transcendental deduction of the ideas from the first critique. On these grounds, I provide an interpretation of the transcendental deduction of the principle of purposiveness of nature in which I argue that: 1) the necessity of the principle of purposiveness of nature does not derive from its role in solving some specific philosophical problem but from its relation to (...) a cognitive goal; 2) the representation of nature as conforming to the maxims of judgement is a direct, immediate consequence of a certain cognitive goal that the necessity of the empirical laws mentioned by Kant in the transcendental deduction of the principle of purposiveness of nature is not so much their nomic necessity, but their necessity as consequences of higher laws. (shrink)

O artigo trata da relação entre pensamento transcendental, aplicação e natureza nas reflexões de G. Bardili, K. L. Reinhold e J. G. Fichte, entre 1799 e 1801. Após uma primeira discussão das críticas à filosofia transcendental formuladas por Reinhold e Bardili, são analisados os pressupostos da filosofia da natureza apresentada no Grundriss bardiliano e avaliada a expansão que aí opera a fenomenologia concebida por Reinhold no IV tomo dos Beyträge zur leichtern Übersicht des Zustandes der Philosophie beym Anfänge des 19. (...) Jahrhunderts. Por fim, se discute a posição que Fichte assume com respeito a estas tentativas nos apontamentos preparatórios à revisão do Grundriss bardiliano e nas Teses explicativas da essência dos animais, comparando-as aos desenvolvimentos sucessivos da sua reflexão sobre a natureza. (shrink)

El trabajo sostiene que el aspecto temporal del significado constituye un elemento común a la reflexión de la Crítica de la razón pura y Ser y tiempo y propone su identificación como línea de argumentación entre ambas obras. Esta línea puede ser trazada desde la afirmación de que sólo la temporalidad posibilita el significado de los conceptos puros hasta la idea de la génesis temporal del significado. Acorde a ello el trabajo se propone: a) mostrar la posibilidad de trazar dicha (...) línea de argumentación común a ambas obras; b) indicar que a partir de ello ambas confluyen en una perspectiva que puede ser comprendida como una reflexión trascendental sobre el significado; c) exponer esta confluencia como el aspecto temporal del significado, y d) sugerir que, así comprendida, dicha reflexión conjunta puede proponer un enfoque relevante en la actual reflexión filosófica sobre el significado. (shrink)