37-02 – Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online https://www.losguardo.net Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:15:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 Leibniz and 18th-century Philosophy of Language https://www.losguardo.net/en/leibniz-and-18th-century-philosophy-of-language-2/ Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:47:52 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=5940 ARTICOLI / 3 / Michael Losonsky / Leibniz’s work on language left a lasting impression on 18th-century philosophical thinking about language. His two major works that discussed natural language were both published in the 18th century and in these works Leibniz focused on the sound symbolism, phonology, and etymology of language, topics that played a major...

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]]> Lord Monboddo’s Anti-Enlightenment. Conjectural History, Human Nature, and the Teleological Foundation of Language https://www.losguardo.net/en/lord-monboddos-anti-enlightenment-conjectural-history-human-nature-and-the-teleological-foundation-of-language-2/ Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:42:55 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=5938 CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Francesco Cataldi / This paper aims to illustrate how Lord Monboddo (James Burnett), one of the most eccentric figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, conceived language, contrasting his positions with the views adopted by his contemporaries who endorsed Lockean and Newtonian empiricism. I will take into consideration his two major works (Of the...

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]]> Cenni, corpi e canto. All’origine del linguaggio nella Scienza nuova del 1744 https://www.losguardo.net/en/cenni-corpi-e-canto-allorigine-del-linguaggio-nella-scienza-nuova-del-1744-2/ Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:27 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=5936 CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Sebastiano Mosti / Gestures, Bodies, Singing. At the Origin of the Language in Scienza nuova of 1744 This paper deals with Giambattista Vico’s linguistic doctrine presented in the 1744 edition of the Scienza nuova, focusing on the question of the natural origin of language. Starting from the presentation of the Aristotelian-Cartesian conventionalist theses about...

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