This essay critically examines the criticism of Kant's ethics, formulated by V. Kraft in various publications. According to this critical argument, the categorical imperative, or rather the idea of universalizability, is lacking in substance. In a metacritique of Kraft's discussion, the essay tries to elaborate on the limitedness of Kraft's criticism, primarily with regard to the discussion of the "false promise". It is to be demonstrated that Kraft's criticism is based on a reinterpretation, or rather a sweeping misinterpretation, of Kant's (...) explanations and that it is, consequently, hardly able to refute them. (shrink)

This bibliography documents English-speaking and German-speaking books and articles concerning the subject 'reference' and some related topics that belong to the field of Analytical Philosophy. More than 2000 monographs, articles, and collections (from th.

Jerrold J. Katz advocates a theory of semantics and pragmatics which is a realistic, platonic, anti-naturalistic, anti-psychological and non-fregean version of intensionalism. He intends by his approach to solve various substantial problems of philosophy of language (for example those dealing with “meaning” and “reference”).In the following, at first this theory will be presented shortly. This presentation deals primarily with the foundations of Katz' theory and his treatment of the important concepts “meaning” and “reference”. Secondly, it includes a discussion of some (...) recent criticism (of P.A. Boghossian and of R.F. Gibson) concerning Katz' notions of pragmatics and semantics. At last, a shorter critical evaluation of the principles of Katz' theory follows. (shrink)

Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Problem der Referenz auseinander, wie es im Rahmen der Analytischen Philosophie diskutiert wird. Sie versteht sich als eine Bestandsaufnahme, Typisierung, Kritik und Evaluierung der wichtigsten sprachanalytischen Referenztheorien von Frege, Russell, Geach, Ryle, Strawson, Searle, Wittgenstein, Ziff, Quine, Donnellan, Kripke, Putnam und Katz. Schwierigkeiten der einzelnen Ansatze werden benannt, und der Autor versucht, ihnen durch eine Synthese ihrer Vorzuge zu begegnen. This study deals with the problem of reference as it is discussed within the context (...) of Analytical Philosophy. Its intention is a survey, typology and critical evaluation of the most influential reference theories put forth by Frege, Russell, Geach, Ryle, Strawson, Serale, Wittgenstein, Ziff, Quine, Donnellan, Kripke, Putnam and Katz. The author aims at developing a new theory of reference on the basis of his examinations. (shrink)