Statement and Referent: An Inquiry into the Foundations of our Conceptual Order

Statement and Referent is a continuation of “First Philosophy” as initiated in Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Metaphysics. Shwayder ultimately argues that the “category” of bodies is fundamental within the human scheme of conceptualization in that, without a capacity to refer to bodies, a human subject would be unable to conceptualize referents pertaining to such other “categories” as surfaces, visibilia and natural numbers.

David Shwayder retired in the late 1980s after teaching philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan, as well as other universities.

November 2008