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    Enlightenment and Action From Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought.Michael Losonsky - 2001 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Kant believed that true enlightenment is the use of reason freely in public. This book systematicaaly traces the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity. Michael Losonsky focuses on seventeenth-century discussions of the problem of irresolution and the closely connected theme of the role of volition in human belief formation. This involves a discussion of the work of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza and Leibniz. Challenging the traditional views of seventeenth-century philosophy and (...)
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    Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy.Michael Losonsky - 2006 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to Wittgenstein. It examines the contributions of canonical figures such as Leibniz, Mill, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Davidson, as well as those of Condillac, Humboldt, Chomsky, and Derrida. Michael Losonsky argues that the philosophy of language begins with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. He shows how the history of the philosophy of language in the modern period (...)
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  3. The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments.Klaus Reich, Jane Kneller & Michael Losonsky - 1992 - Duke University Press.
    English translation by Kneller and Losonsky of Klaus Reich, Die Vollständigkeit der Kantischen Urteilstafel -/- "This classic of Kant scholarship, whose first edition appeared in 1932, deals with one of the most controversial and difficult topics in the Critique of Pure Reason: Kant's table of judgments and their connection to the table of categories. Kant's attempt to derive the latter from the former is called the "Metaphysical Deduction," and it paves the way for the Transcendental Deduction that is universally recognized (...)
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    The Nature of Artifacts.Michael Losonsky - 1990 - Philosophy 65 (251):81 - 88.
    In Book II, Chapter 1 of the Physics Aristotle attempts to distinguish natural objects from artifacts. He begins by stating that a natural object ‘has in itself a source of change and staying unchanged, whether in respect of place, or growth and decay, or alteration’. But this is not sufficient to distinguish natural objects from artifacts. As he points out later, a wooden bed, for example, can rot or burn, and this is surely a change whose source is, in part, (...)
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    Self-deceivers' intentions and possessions.Michael Losonsky - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):121-122.
    Although Mele's four sufficient conditions for self-deception are on track insofar as they avoid the requirement that self-deception involves contradictory beliefs, they are too weak, because they are broad enough to include cases of bias or prejudice that are not typical cases of self-deception. I discuss what distinguishes self-deception from other forms of bias.
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    Individual Essences.Michael Losonsky - 1987 - American Philosophical Quarterly 24 (3):253 - 260.
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  7. Language, meaning, and mind in Locke's Essay.Michael Losonsky - 2007 - In Lex Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 286-312.
    This paper reconsiders and defends the view that Locke's theory of signification is a theory of meaning.
     
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  8. Individuation and the bundle theory.Michael Losonsky - 1987 - Philosophical Studies 52 (2):191 - 198.
    It has been suggested that distinct individuals can have exactly the same properties; thus individuals cannot be individuated by their properties, And so the bundle theory appears to be false. One way to shore up the bundle theory is to introduce impure properties, And I defend this move against some objections by d m armstrong, M loux, And j van cleve.
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  9. Leibniz's Metaphysics of Representation, Perception, and Appetition.Michael Losonsky -
    This paper explores the relationships between perception, representation and appetition in Leibniz's later metaphysics, and defends four theses. First, for Leibniz perceptions are not the carriers of content, but they are identical to representational content. Second, Leibniz's appetitions are the carriers of content and he should be taken at his word when he declares, "Thought consists in conatus". Third, while it is true that for Leibniz representational content is determined by a species of mapping or function from representation to what (...)
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    Locke and Leibniz on Religious Faith.Michael Losonsky - 2012 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (4):703 - 721.
    In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke maintains that ?Reason must be our last Judge and Guide in every Thing,? including matters of religious faith, and this commitment to the primacy of reason is not abandoned in his later religious writings. This essay argues that with regard to the relation between reason and religious faith, Locke is primarily concerned not with evidence, but with consistency, meaning, and how human beings ought to respond to their inclinations, including their inclinations to believe. (...)
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  11. Language, Meaning and Mind in Locke's Essay.Michael Losonsky - 2007 - In Lex Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 286-312.
     
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  12. The completeness of Kant's table of judgements.Klaus Reich, Jane Kneller, Michael Losonsky & Lewis White Beck - 1992 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 184 (4):450-451.
     
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  13. Emdedded systems vs. individualism.Michael Losonsky - 1995 - Minds and Machines 5 (3):357-71.
    The dispute between individualism and anti-individualism is about the individuation of psychological states, and individualism, on some accounts, is committed to the claim that psychological subjects together with their environments do not constitute integrated computational systems. Hence on this view the computational states that explain psychological states in computational accounts of mind will not involve the subject''s natural and social environment. Moreover, the explanation of a system''s interaction with the environment is, on this view, not the primary goal of computational (...)
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  14. Locke on meaning and signification.Michael Losonsky - 1994 - In Graham Alan John Rogers (ed.), Locke's philosophy: content and context. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Hume's Skepticism and the Whimsical Condition.Michael Losonsky - 2017 - Hume Studies 43 (1):29-59.
    At a crucial point in the final section 12 of Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding he refers to "the whimsical condition of mankind".1 This occurs in his concluding remarks about the untenability of what he calls "Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism" that set the stage for "mitigated scepticism, or ACADEMICAL philosophy", which then culminates in the famous agitated final paragraph of the first Enquiry that advocates "havoc" and committing certain kinds of books "to the flames".I wish to examine the content, context, (...)
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  16. The Preoccupation and Crisis of Analytic Philosophy.Michael Losonsky - 2014 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 10 (1):5-20.
    I propose to reconsider Gilbert Ryle’s thesis in 1956 in his introduction to The Revolution of Philosophy that “the story of twentieth-century philosophy is very largely the story of this notion of sense or meaning” and, as he writes elsewhere, the “preoccupation with the theory of meaning is the occupational disease of twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon and Austrian philoso- phy.” Ryle maintains that this preoccupation demar- cates analytic philosophy from its predecessors and that it gave philosophy a set of academic credentials as (...)
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    John Locke on passion, will and belief.Michael Losonsky - 1996 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (2):267 – 283.
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    No problem for actualism.Michael Losonsky - 1986 - Philosophical Review 95 (1):95-97.
    Alan mcmichaels has argued that actualism, The view that there are no non-Actual entities, Has a problem with iterated modalities. This paper argues that this is not the case.
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    Passionate thought: Computation, thought and action in Hobbes.Michael Losonsky - 1993 - Pragmatics and Cognition 1 (2):245-266.
    According to a computational view of mind, thinking is identified with the manipulation of internal mental representations and intelligent behavior is the output of these computations. Although Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of mind is taken by many to be a precursor of this brand of cognitivism, this is not the case. For Hobbes, not all thinking is the manipulation of language-like symbols, and intelligent behavior is partly constitutive of cognition. Cognition requires a 'passionate thought', and this Hobbsian synthesis of inner thought (...)
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    Reference and Rorty's veil.Michael Losonsky - 1985 - Philosophical Studies 47 (2):291 - 294.
  21. The cognitive unity of external and internal states.Michael Losonsky - 1993 - In Christopher Hookway (ed.), Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge University Press. pp. 313--318.
     
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  22. What God Could Have Made.Michael Losonsky & Heimir Geirsson - 2005 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 43 (3):355-376.
    Plantinga grants that there are possible worlds with freedom and no moral evil, but he argues that it is possible that although God is omnipotent, it is not within God’s power to actualize a world containing freedom and no moral evil. Plantinga believes that the atheologian assumes that it is necessary that it is within an omnipotent God’s power to actualize these better worlds, but in fact, Plantinga argues, this is demonstrably not the case. Since so many philosophers have regarded (...)
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  23. Frege’s ‘bedeutung’ and mill’s ‘denotatlon’.Michael Losonsky - 2004 - Southwest Philosophy Review 20 (1):139-145.
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    Beginning metaphysics: an introductory text with readings.Michael Losonsky & Heimir Geirsson (eds.) - 1991 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
    This flexible textbook is both an introduction and a reader in metaphysics combining original discussion with selections from primary sources.
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    Readings in Language and Mind.Michael Losonsky & Heimir Geirsson (eds.) - 1996 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    This is an anthology of landmark essays in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and cognitive science since 1950. It includes essays that aim to reflect the fact that philosophy and the science of mind and language have close historical and conceptual ties. Each section begins with a brief and simple overview highlighting the issues and recommending other readings. The combination of this editorial material with a selection of classic essays makes this anthology a very flexible tool for introductory (...)
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    Abstraction, covariance, and representation.Michael Losonsky - 1993 - Philosophical Studies 70 (2):225 - 234.
    According to a simple similarity theory of representation, x represents y because x and y share some properties. In Meaning and Mental Representation, Robert Cummins rejects this account for representations that play a role in cognition because, among other things, a similarity theory of representation precludes a satisfactory account of an essential cognitive task, namely abstraction. Intelligent beings have representations of classes and properties, and we need an account for such representations. Cummins argues that a causal covariance theory of representation, (...)
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  27. A Defense of an Idealist Theory of Reference for Proper Names.Michael Losonsky - 1982 - Dissertation, The University of Rochester
    According to an idealist theory of reference for proper names the reference of proper names is fixed by what name users express in their beliefs, intentions, thoughts, and so forth. My task is to show that an idealist can defend himself against the proponent of the causal theory of reference, who claims that reference cannot be fixed solely by what is expressed in name users' minds. An idealist can handle certain facts of reference the causal theorist believes idealists cannot handle. (...)
     
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    An Ontological Argument for Modal Realism.Michael Losonsky - 1988 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 31 (1):165-177.
    I argue for modal realism from the following principles:(R1) p just in case there are truth-makers for the proposition that p.(R2) If there are truth-makers for the proposition that p and the proposition that p relevantly entails the proposition that q, then there are truthrmakers for the proposition that q.(M) The proposition that p relevantly entails the proposition that possibly p.(R3) I f there are truth-makers for the proposition that q, then necessarily, if q, there are truth-makers for the proposition (...)
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  29. Books in review.Michael Losonsky - 1979 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):141.
     
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    Beyond methodological solipsism?Michael Losonsky - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4):723-724.
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    (1 other version)"Locke on the Limits of Human Reason, Liberty and Happiness," Critical Notice of Peter Schouls, Reasoned Freedom: John Locke and the Enlightenment.Michael Losonsky - 1995 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 25 (2):293-314.
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    God, Property and Morality.Michael Losonsky - 1979 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):131 - 139.
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    Idealism, cataclysms, and the facts of reference.Michael Losonsky - 1983 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 61 (1):68 – 77.
    A theory of reference for proper names according to which reference is fixed solely in terms of the contents of language users' minds is an idealist theory. A theory of reference for proper names in which reference is fixed not in terms of the contents of language users' minds, but in terms of causal chains connecting users to referents is a materialist theory. A dualist theory is one in which reference is fixed both by the contents of minds and causal (...)
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    Leibniz's adamic language of thought.Michael Losonsky - 1992 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (4):523-643.
  35. Logic and Language in Early Modern Philosophy.Michael Losonsky - 2006 - In Donald Rutherford (ed.), The Cambridge companion to early modern philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 170-197.
     
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  36. Locke on Meaning and Significance.Michael Losonsky - 1994 - In Graham Alan John Rogers (ed.), Locke's philosophy: content and context. New York: Oxford University Press.
    The author argues that Locke's theory of signification in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a theory of meaning and defends it against criticisms.
     
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    Modern Philosophy of Language.Michael Losonsky - 2011 - In Gillian Russell & Delia Graff Fara (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. New York, USA: Routledge. pp. 841-851.
    A survey of the emergence of the philosophy of language in 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy as an independent subdiscipline of philosophy.
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    Philosophy and the ecological problem, a special issue of filozoficky casopis.Michael Losonsky - 1991 - Environmental Ethics 13 (1):87-93.
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  39. The Concept of Linguistic Reference Before Frege.Michael Losonsky - 2021 - In Stephen Biggs and Heimir Geirsson (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference. Routledge. pp. 17-29.
    This essay traces the concept of linguistic reference and its role in the determination of linguistic meaning in the history of philosophy before Frege.
     
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  40. (2 other versions)The History of the Philosophy of Language before Frege.Michael Losonsky - 2021 - In Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. 51-70.
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    The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments.Arthur Melnick, Klaus Reich, Jane Kneller & Michael Losonsky - 1994 - Philosophical Review 103 (2):373.
  42. Leibniz and the rational order of nature. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 2000 - Philosophical Review 109 (1):94-98.
    In this comprehensive study of Leibniz’s mature metaphysics, Donald Rutherford attempts to recover Leibniz’s theodicy as an essential part of his philosophy. Although Rutherford does not succeed in showing that the theodicy is essential to Leibniz’s metaphysics, he effectively uses the theodicy as an entry into Leibniz’s metaphysics and he highlights the many links between them. Of course, there are other significant ways of entering Leibniz’s philosophy—he wanted to “do justice to theology as to physics”—but Rutherford reminds us that Leibniz (...)
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  43. Lenz on Locke on Language. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 2013 - Historiographia Linguistica 40:477-487.
    Review article of Martin Lenz, Locke's Sprachkonzeption, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010.
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    Roger Woolhouse, Locke: A Biography. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 2008 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (1):175-176.
    "A man of versatile mind"—a remark from a letter to Locke by a life-long friend—is the subtitle of the first chapter of this biography. It could also be the book's subtitle. Relying on Locke's correspondence, manuscripts, and mostly unpublished journals, Woolhouse pieces together a detailed quilt that exhibits the tremendous variety of Locke's interests and activities. Locke, who admitted to wandering interests , wrote about medicine, horticulture, religion, education, economics, government, and human understanding, as well as occasional poetry and a (...)
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  45. Patricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski, The Computational Brain Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 1993 - Philosophy in Review 13 (4):142-144.
     
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    Review of Allen W. wood, Kant[REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 2006 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (4).
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    Review of Brook (2007): The Prehistory of Cognitive Science. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 2008 - Pragmatics and Cognition 16 (1):185-189.
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    Zeit der Ernte. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 1986 - Idealistic Studies 16 (1):94-95.
    This is the fourth Festschrift for Arthur Hübscher, testifying to the respect and influence he enjoys. Hübscher edited the critical edition of Schopenhauer’s complete works and has been president of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft since 1936. This Festschrift is supposed to “document the state of international Schopenhauer scholarship for years to come”.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Beth Preston, Matthew Elton, Michael Losonsky, Saul Traiger, Randall R. Dipert & Jerome A. Shaffer - 1994 - Minds and Machines 4 (3):353-376.