Michael Losonsky

Biographic Data

ID495312
NAMEMichael Losonsky
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMELosonsky
SIGNATURELOSONSKY M
AFFILIATIONSColorado State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX0

  • Lenz on Locke on Language

    Michael LosonskyARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2013References: 1

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  • The Prehistory of Cognitive Science

    Michael LosonskyARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2008

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy

    Open AccessStephen Gaukroger, Dennis Des Chene et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to early…2006

    The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the central topics and changing shape of philosophical inquiry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy, extending from Montaigne, Bacon and Descartes through Hume and Kant. During this period, philosophers initiated and responded to major intellectual developments in natural…

  • Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant

    Open AccessMichael LosonskyBOOKEnlightenment and Action from…2001

    Kant believed that true enlightenment is the use of reason freely in public. This book systematicaaly traces the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity. Michael Losonsky focuses on seventeenth-century discussions of the problem of irresolution and the closely connected theme of the role of volition in human belief formation. This involves a discussion of the work of D…

  • Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature

    Michael Losonsky, Donald RutherfordARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

    Part I. Theodicy: 1. The vindication of divine justice 2. The maximisation of perfection and harmony 3. Happiness and virtue in the best of all possible worlds Part II. First philosophy: 4. Metaphysics and its method 5. The categories of thought and being 6. Substance Part III. Nature: 7. Modelling the best of all possible worlds 8. Monads, matter, and organisms 9. Dynamics and the reality of matter 10. Corporeal substance and the union of soul b…

  • Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature

    Michael LosonskyARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

    Book Review| January 01 2000 Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature LEIBNIZ AND THE RATIONAL ORDER OF NATURE. By Donald Rutherford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 301. Michael Losonsky Michael Losonsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 94–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-1-94 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …

  • Readings in Language and Mind

    William Frawley, Heimir Geirsson et al.ARTICLELanguage1997

    Preface. Philosophy of Language and Mind, 1950-90: Tyler Burge. Part I: The Meaning of Language: 1. Natural and Formal Lnaguages. 2. Language and Communication. 3. Language and Environment. Part II: The Meaning of Mind: 4. Language and Mind. 5. Mind and Machine. 6. Mind and Biology. 7. Mind and Environment. Part III: The Science of Mind and Language: 8. Language and Cognition. 9. Artificial Intelligence. Index

  • Fifty Years of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

    Laura A Janda, Heimir Geirsson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1997

  • The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments

    Arthur Melnick, K H Reich et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1994

  • Passionate thought

    Michael LosonskyARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition1993

    According to a computational view of mind, thinking is identified with the manipulation of internal mental representations and intelligent behavior is the output of these computations. Although Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of mind is taken by many to be a precursor of this brand of cognitivism, this is not the case. For Hobbes, not all thinking is the manipulation of language-like symbols, and intelligent behavior is partly constitutive of cognitio…

  • Philosophy and the Ecological Problem, a Special Issue of Filozoficky Casopis

    Michael LosonskyARTICLEEnvironmental Ethics1991

  • The Nature of Artifacts

    Open AccessMichael LosonskyARTICLEPhilosophy1990

    In Book II, Chapter 1 of the Physics Aristotle attempts to distinguish natural objects from artifacts. He begins by stating that a natural object ‘has in itself a source of change and staying unchanged, whether in respect of place, or growth and decay, or alteration’. But this is not sufficient to distinguish natural objects from artifacts. As he points out later, a wooden bed, for example, can rot or burn, and this is surely a change whose sourc…

  • No Problem for Actualism

    Michael LosonskyARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1986

  • Marxism and the Facts of Life; Reply; How Powerful is the Fed

    Michael Losonsky, Jr Michael Losonsky et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review1985

    I found Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff's essay "The 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics: Neo-classical Economics and Marxism" to be misguided. It is misguided because into the conflict between Marxist and bourgeois "non-class" economics they introduce issues about the nature of truth and knowledge. It is also misguided because they treat certain facts of life as theoretical truths of Marxism.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review websi…