Pictures, quotations, and distinctions : fourteen essays in phenomenology

Picturing -- Quotation -- Making Distinctions -- Explaining -- Timing -- Measurement -- Exact Science And The World In Which We Live -- Exorcising Concepts -- Referring -- Grammar And Thinking -- Tarskian Harmonies In Words And Pictures -- Moral Thinking -- What Is Moral Action? -- Knowing Natural Law. Robert Sokolowski. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 293-318) And Index. Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions, CONTENTS PREFACE PROVENANCE OF THE ESSAYS INTRODUCTION I 1— Picturing 1 2 3 4 5 2— Quotation 1 2 3 4 5 II 3— Making Distinctions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4— Explaining 1 2 3 4 III 5— Timing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6— Measurement 1 2 7— Exact Science and the World in Which We Live 1 2 3 4 IV 8— Exorcising Concepts 1 2 3 4 5 9— Referring 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 V 10— Grammar and Thinking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 11— Tarskian Harmonies in Words and Pictures 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 VI 12— Moral Thinking 1 2 3 4 5 6 13— What Is Moral Action? 1 2 3 4 5 14— Knowing Natural Law 1 2 3 NOTES 1— Picturing 2— Quotation 3— Making Distinctions 4— Explaining 5— Timing 6— Measurement 7— Exact Science and the World in Which We Live 8— Exorcising Concepts 9— Referring 10— Grammar and Thinking 11— Tarskian Harmonies in Words and Pictures 13— What Is Moral Action? 14— Knowing Natural Law INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z An anthology of the essays of Robert Sokolowski, a thinker who specializes in questions of conceptual analysis. The essays constitute Sokolowski's sustained project of critical phenomenological analysis of many different forms of presentation as well as many different forms of human experience.