Background
Dascal, Marcelo was born on November 11, 1940 in São Paulo, Brazil. Arrived in Israel, 1965. Son of Adolpho and Sarah (Schwartz) Dascal.
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This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics and the philosophy of mind. Unlike most of the books written on the subject, it does not defend the view that a specific form of dependence holds between language and thought, to the exclusion of all other possible relations. Taking pragmatics in its original sense of “that part of semiotics that is concerned with the users of a semiotic system”, the book analyses the nature of the mental processes and states mirrored in language use. Drawing on results from cognitive psychology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, linguistics, etc., a unified view of the mental dimension in the use of language, both as an instrument of communication and as an instrument of thought, is offered. After offering a tour d’horizon of the relationship between language and mind, this volume deals with the way thought is manifested in language.
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Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and language? What role does this interest play in his philosophical system? In the essays here collected, Marcello Dascal attempts to tackle these questions from different angles. They bring to light aspects of Leibniz’s work on these and related issues which have been so far neglected. As a rule they take as their starting point Leibniz's early writings (some unpublished, some only available in Latin) on characters and cognition, on definition, on truth, on memory, on grammar, on the specific problems of religious discourse, and so on. An effort has been made to relate the views expressed in these writings both to Leibniz’ more mature views, and to the conceptions prevailing in his time, as well as in preceding and following periods. The common thread running through all the essays is to what extent language and signs, in their most varied forms, are related to cognitive processes, according to Leibniz and his contemporaries.
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Book jacket: From postmodernist and post-philosophical quarters we now hear that philosophy is at the end of its rope, that modern philosophy is just another modernist product which has outlived its usefulness. Whatever the precise merits of the various postmodernist critiques, they have certainly compelled many philosophers to take notice, and to concede that their enterprise has reached an impasse. The essays in this volume mark a new stage in the debate. Though divergent in their philosophical -- or post-philosophical -- standpoints, the authors all share the view that philosophy is at a fateful juncture. Postmodernism, pragmatism, feminism, and historicism are some of the tendencies scrutinized in this wide-ranging symposium on the past, present, and many possible futures of the 'institution of philosophy.'
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Dascal, Marcelo was born on November 11, 1940 in São Paulo, Brazil. Arrived in Israel, 1965. Son of Adolpho and Sarah (Schwartz) Dascal.
License philosophy, University São Paulo, 1963. Graduate electrical engineering, University São Paulo, 1964. Postgraduate in linguistics, University Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 1965.
Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1973.
Lecturer philosophy and linguistics University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1973-1974. Professor linguistics State University Campinas, Brazil, 1975-1985. Senior lecturer philosophy Tel Aviv University, 1977-1981, associate professor philosophy, 1981-1990, professor philosophy, since 1991, dean humanities, 1995-2000.
Visiting associate professor philosophy University California, Berkeley, 1980-1981. Liebniz professor interdisciplinary studies Leipzig University, Germany, 2002.
(Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and languag...)
( Book jacket: From postmodernist and post-philosophical ...)
(This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics an...)
Member International Association for the Study of Controversies (founder, president since 2000), International Network for Economic Method (founder), International Society for the Study of Argumentation (Israeli representative), Society d'Histoire et Epistemologie des Sciences du Language (member international committee), New Israeli Philosophical Association (president since 1996), Jerusalem Philosophical Society, Leibniz Gesellschaft, International Association Dialogue Analysis.
Married Varda Ghilscher, February 29, 1964. Children: Hagit, Shlomit, Tamar.