Author : Richard E. Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2009-01-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521514126
An evidence based, rigorous text reviewing 12 principles of experimental studies grounded in cognitive theory of multi-media learning.
Author : Rani Lill Anjum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351009796
People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. Plants tend to grow and thrive in sunlight and mild temperatures. We also know that tendencies are not perfectly regular and that there are patterns in the natural world, which are reliable to a degree, but not absolute. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one way but could be another? Is there a position between necessity and possibility? If there is, what are the implications for science, knowledge and ethics? This book explores these questions and is the first full-length treatment of the philosophy of tendencies. Anjum and Mumford argue that although the philosophical language of tendencies has been around since Aristotle, there has not been any serious commitment to the irreducible modality that they involve. They also argue that the acceptance of an irreducible and sui generis tendential modality ought to be the fundamental commitment of any genuine realism about dispositions or powers. It is the dispositional modality that makes dispositions authentically disposition-like. Armed with this theory the authors apply it to a variety of key philosophical topics such as chance, causation, epistemology and free will.
Author : Paul Portner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0199292426
This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.
Author : Frank Robert Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521804790
Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.
Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191646342
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.
Author : W.G. Lycan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1994-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780792330073
Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.
Author : Fabrizio Cariani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108474772
A study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.
Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027223579
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. By adopting a systematic functional orientation, the book explains a whole range of peculiarities of epistemic expression forms (synchronically and diachronically), and it offers a clear perspective on which cognitive systems are needed to get from the concept of epistemic modality to its linguistic expression. On that basis the author postulates a sophisticated, layered view of human conceptualization. This book is of interest both to scholars working on modality and related semantic dimensions, and to the interdisciplinary field of researchers concerned with the cognitive systems involved in language use.
Author : Barbara Vetter
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Disposition (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0198714319
Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes. Barbara Vetter provides a systematic investigation into the metaphysics of such potentials, and an account of metaphysical modality based on them. In contemporary philosophy, potentials have been recognized mostly in the form of so-called dispositions: solubility, fragility, and so on. Vetter takes dispositions as her starting point, but argues for and develops a more comprehensive conception of potentiality. She shows how, with this more comprehensive conception, an account of metaphysical modality can be given that meets three crucial requirements: (1) Extensional correctness: providing the right truth-values for statements of possibility and necessity; (2) formal adequacy: providing the right logic for metaphysical modality; and (3) semantic utility: providing a semantics that links ordinary modal language to the metaphysics of modality. The resulting view of modality is a version of dispositionalism about modality: it takes modality to be a matter of the dispositions of individual objects (and, crucially, not of possible worlds). This approach has a long philosophical tradition going back to Aristotle, but has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. In recent years, it has become a live option again due to the rise of anti-Humean, powers-based metaphysics. The aim of Potentiality and Possibility is to develop the dispositionalist view in a way that takes account of contemporary developments in metaphysics, logic, and semantics.
Author : Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351730045
Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). This book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality, as well as replies by Williamson to each essay. In addition, it contains an original essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
