Academy of Finland

About: Academy of Finland is a government organization based out in Helsinki, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 286 authors who have published 419 publications receiving 15304 citations. The organization is also known as: Finlands Akademi & Suomen Akatemia.

Surface Semantics: Definition and Its Motivation

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the definition and motivation for surface semantics. Truth-definitions can have a mathematical bite, however, when entities of a higher logical type are involved—for instance, when functions and perhaps even functionals are being quantified over in them. There is more philosophical and methodological interest in this direction than philosophers of language have so far spelled out. The chapter also discusses surface models, surface models as representations of reality, surface models versus ordinary models, further restraints on surface models, the definition of a surface model, the intuitive meaning of the restraints, the reality of non-extendible surface models, the notion of truth in a surface model, and further semantical concepts. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the objectivity of surface semantics.

Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

Abstract: In his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these values open two kinds of infinities in our lives. On the one hand personal values disclose infinite emotive depths in human individuals while on the other hand they connect human individuals in continuous and progressive chains of care. In order to get at the core of the concept, I will explicate Husserl’s discussion of personal values of love by distinguishing between five related features. I demonstrate that values of love (1) are rooted in egoic depts and define who we are as persons, (2) differ from objective values in being absolute and non-comparative, (3) ground vocational lives as organizing principles, (4) are endlessly self-disclosing and self-intensifying, and (5) establish transitive relations of care between human beings. On the basis of my five-partite distinction, I argue that Husserl’s concepts of love and value of love reveal the dynamic character of human subjectivity and intersubjectivity.