検索キーワード： 論理学・言語学

私たちは何を言語化することができ、あるいは言語化することができないのか――。 ２０世紀哲学の金字塔『論理哲学論考』をウィトゲンシュタイン研究の第一人者が解説。

フレーゲからラッセル、そしてウィトゲンシュタインへ――二十世紀初頭、言葉についての問いと答えが重なりあい、つながりあっていった。天才たちの挑戦は言語哲学の源流を形作っていく。

読み終えると、なぜか「書ける自分」に変わっている！37年間、書くことで生きてきた著者が明かす、技術よりも大事な思考と実践。書くことは考えることーーあなたはなぜ「書けない」のか？

人間が言語に規定された存在であることは二〇世紀の哲学の前提だった。二一世紀に入って二〇年が過ぎたいま、コミュニケーションにおける言葉の価値は低下し、〈言語を使う存在〉という人間の定義も有効性

国内外で活躍するための必須スキルとされる「論理的思考」．だが実は，「何を論理的・説得的と感じるか」は普遍的なものでなく，ある国（文化）で論理的とされるものが，ほかでは非論理的だと受け取られることも．

普遍的であるはずの「論理」と「合理性」．それは文化によって大きく異なり「価値観」とつながる．「文化の多様性」という言葉に逃げ込まず，それぞれ4つの原理を代表する日本・アメリカ・フランス・イランの思考表現スタイルから4タイプの論理と合理性を明らかにする．ポスト近代を生き抜く知恵となる比較文化論の集大成．

ことばが世界をつくるのか。世界がことばをつくるのか。元オリンピアンで著作も多く、「走る哲学者」とも呼ばれる為末大氏。

「新書大賞２０２４」第１位！ アジア・ブックアワード２０２４「最優秀図書賞」（一般書部門）受賞 25万部突破！　称賛の声、続々！

あなたは誰のメガネで世界を見ているのか　自分の頭で思考する限り、すべての人は「自分バイアス」を持っている。

今日から、「なぜ」と聞いてはいけません。代わりに、「いつ？」と聞いてください。40年超の対話のプロが熟練の経験を文字化した「解釈のズレを取り去る方法」＝事実質問術を紹介。

This book argues that the most important moments in rational inquiry begin not with success, but with failure. When proof breaks down, when a framework falls silent before truths that appear stable and well-defined, something essential is revealed—not about the truth itself, but about the limits of the system meant to capture it. Moving between logic, mathematics, and physics, the book shows how undecidability and non-provability function not as walls, but as signals, guiding inquiry toward more adequate forms of explanation.

This audiobook is passionately and strikingly read by the author, Mo Gawdat. 'He explains how even in the face of the unthinkable, happiness is still possible' – Stylist Solve for Happy is the equation for happiness. A startlingly original audiobook about creating and maintaining happiness...

The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us...

■思考や表現の幅を広げ、新しい扉を開く隠れた言葉たち「鴆酒（ちんしゅ）」「猫の魚辞退（うおじたい）」「アハ体験」「竹夫人（ちくふじん）」「ぐりはま」「ブーバ／キキ効果」……

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.

Upon its first English publication in 1959, Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized thinking about the scientific method. Largely an exploration of the demarcation problem, or what distinguishes science from non-science, Popper introduced and defended his concept of falsifability -- that scientific systems are ones open to empirical disconfirmation -- against the prevailing views of his day.

Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over 30 years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition.

"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The History of Philosophy written by A.C. Grayling, read by Neil Gardner. The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But since the long-popular classic...

The front cover of the second edition of Language, Truth and Logic carried this statement in capital letters: ‘THE CLASSIC TEXT WHICH FOUNDED LOGICAL POSITIVISM - AND MODERN BRITISH PHILOSOPHY.’ It was a bold statement, but the book, first published in 1936 when A. J. Ayer was just 25 and a...