scholarly journals Hegel's A Priori and the Critique of Three Aprioristic Readings of the Science of Logic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Federico Orsini
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Status ◽  
Adequate Evaluation ◽  
Vicious Circularity ◽  
The Universe

Abstract The goal of my essay is to clarify the status of the a priori in Hegel's Science of Logic. My claim is that in order to make possible an appreciation of the originality of Hegel's position we need to map a context of discussion and to dissolve a set of preconceptions about Hegel's idea of philosophy. My argument will be articulated in two parts. In the first part, I will analyse four possible positions regarding the issue of the aprioricity of the Logic, I will defend a fifth position, and I will draw a distinction between apriorism and a priori. In the second part, I will examine three distinct charges of apriorism against Hegel's Logic: the charge of assuming God's point of view of the universe, the charge of vicious circularity between the beginning and the end of the Logic, the charge of self-sufficiency of the Logic. As a result, I hope to show that these charges are unfounded, and to clear the ground for an adequate evaluation of Hegel's own sublation (Aufhebung) of the a priori/a posteriori divide.

Williamson on the A Priori and the Analytic

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Paul Boghossian ◽  
Timothy Williamson
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
The Status

This essay criticizes Williamson’s attempt, in his book, The Philosophy of Philosophy, to undermine the interest of the a priori–a posteriori distinction. Williamson’s argument turns on several large claims. The first is that experience often plays a role intermediate between evidential and merely enabling, and that this poses a difficulty for giving a theoretically satisfying account of the distinction. The second is that there are no constitutive understanding–assent links. Both of these claims are subjected to detailed scrutiny. In particular, it is argued that Williamson’s case of the deviant logician, Simon, fails to constitute an intelligible counterexample to the status of conjunction elimination as an understanding–assent link for ‘and’.

Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Nathan Brown
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Genetic Epistemology

Chapter 3 pursues the consequences of Hegel’s claim that his method in the Science of Logic does not obey the opposition of the a priori and the a posteriori. Positioning my account of Hegel with respect to other major interpretations, I argue that Hegel’s dialectic depends upon a constant movement between the experience of thinking and its rational consequences, between “what happens in thought” and “what has to be said.” From this perspective, I develop a theory of the relation between the possible and the actual, the necessary and the contingent in “The Logic of Essence.”

Le concept d'intégration en écologie appliquée

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Long
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Australian School ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One

The concept of integration has a wide range of meanings. The author first tries to bring out the point of view of specialists in natural resources. Two approaches are described: on the one hand that proceeding from elementary disciplines or from the nature of variables and on the other hand the ecosystematic or global, multidisciplinary approach. In the first one, integration is made a posteriori by trial and error. More important developments are devoted to the second approach; integration is said to be holistic and proceeds from a priori hypotheses (geomorphological postulate of the Australian school or phytoecological postulate of the Centre d'Etudes Phytosociologiques et Ecologiques Louis Emberger de Montpellier) and a posteriori interpretations. The phyto-ecological approach is especially well developed (vertical vs. horizontal integration). Verified integration is that which proceeds from mathematical models, from historical data, or experimentation.Total integration takes into account contributions from "naturalists" as well as from "humanists."

What Is a Logical Concept of Life? Reply to Critics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Karen Ng
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Logical Concept ◽  
The Status

I am very grateful to Karen Koch and Sebastian Rand for their generous and thoughtful engagement with some of the core arguments of my book. Whereas Koch raises a number of questions concerning the purposiveness theme and Hegel's relation to Kant, Rand's questions revolve around the interpretation of Hegel's Science of Logic, asking after the status of the a priori, singularity, and death in relation to the logical concept of life. Their critical questions provide an opportunity for me to both clarify and defend one of the central claims of my book, namely, that there is a distinctly logical concept of life at work in Hegel's philosophy that is key for understanding his philosophical method. In the book, I argue that this concept, operative in Hegel's writings from the Differenzschrift through the Phenomenology to his Science of Logic, is primarily inherited from Kant, specifically from problems surrounding the concept of inner purposiveness developed in the Critique of Judgement. I will begin by replying to Koch, followed by a response to Rand.

THE SPACE OF HISTORICITY IN THE DIGITAL PARADIGM OF CULTURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
Elena V. Ryabinina ◽  
◽  
Inna I. Kovalenko ◽  
Aleksandr N. Khoroshev ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
The Status ◽  
Spatial Aspect ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of the article is to reveal the virtual nature of historicity, clearly represented by digital practices, in a spatial aspect. The research methodology is oriented on “hermeneutical understanding”, which is interactive in nature and corresponds to the interpretational possibilities of virtual experience. The specifics of the latter conditioned a phenomenological approach to the question of the definability of the life world of subjectivity, in which the mutually exclusive factors interact. Liberal democratic reasons express the need for recreation, but they signify the unification of individuals. Historical self-consciousness is inherent in existence, but is lost in the absolute power of “here-and-now”. Sociocultural continuum bears the combination of the incompatible (grotesque), being-nonsense, but it exists as fully tangible for all. The characteristic of the transformed form of historicity, conditioned by its own virtual moment, in the aspect of space constitutes the scientific novelty of the work and allows us coming to the conclusion: the digital paradigm of space reveals the crisis of historicity through the dynamics of its virtual moment to the status of the instance of being. Thus, in terms of experiencing space, it is clear that it becomes meaningful through the image of movement based on the current accessibility of the flow. The mental quality of the space in the performance-effects is transformed into a mature declarative, and the temporality of history in the digital space is represented by the superimposition of gradations of infinity and speculative momentality in quasi-simultaneity. The movement of retrospective analysis from the unity of the historical and the logical – through the actualization of the subject – reaches a state of conditionally indefinable relation to the past. That is, the past – from the category conditioned by real facts and the deed of history – turns into a sort of a mark, from which the outlines of the future set off, loaded with “hyperreality”. The subject is a priori hypostasizing in such performances into the affective-bodily factor, manifests itself as a “hyper-sign” of the being, which is attributed to the abolition of the fullness of itself. In the sense of categorization of the basic attitude towards its reality, which is the basis of historicity, such abolition is expressed by imitation of free will, and this is obviously a comic form. The set fair obviousness and self-sufficiency of the virtual moment of historicity shows the process of canceling the obsolete integrity scenario (the subject of cultural experience) and its replacement with a virtual feature that is “prosthetic” by the digital continuum.

scholarly journals Sociología de la moda, un punto de vista privilegiadoThe Sociology of Fashion. A privileged point of view

2017 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Pedro Mansilla Viedma
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Art Object ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Siglo Xx

Como el título sugiere, el artículo pretende reflexionar sobre el punto de vista de la sociología sobre la moda, exagerando irónicamente lo específico de su punto de vista hasta elevarlo a “privilegiado”. Utilizo esa exageración para llamar la atención sobre la doble dimensión teórica de esa mirada. Una primera, fácil de entender, y quizás de aceptar, subraya la lectura sociológica de una moda ya pasada, como puede hacerlo la historia del arte, del traje o de la moda. Otra segunda, atreviéndose a reflexionar, o a invitarnos a reflexionar, sobre su otro punto de vista. Aquel que condicionaría el nacimiento mismo de la moda desde la sociología. La moda a posteriori es analizada, la moda a priori también, y aquí, donde la moda es efecto de una causa sociológica, y no al revés, es donde radicaría el verdadero interés de mi artículo. ¿Son antes los pantalones femeninos, el traje femenino, el smoking femenino –robados psicoanalíticamente al hombre durante el siglo XX– o la emancipación de la mujer? ¿Apareció siempre la minifalda después de la liberaciónsexual femenina o alguna vez, en algún país, fue al revés? ¿El movimiento hippie creó siempre una moda hippie o la imitación de la moda hippie invitó, en su onda expansiva mundial, a un estilo de vida consecuente con ese cambio de ropa? Estamos acostumbrados a que la moda sea un efecto, ¿puede ser una causa? Estamos acostumbrados a que la sociología explique un fenómeno, ¿aceptaríamos que a veces se pueda convertir en su causa?PALABRAS CLAVE: sociología, moda, causa, objeto de arte, contexto.ABSTRACTAs the title suggests, this article aims to reflect on the sociological viewpoint on fashion, ironically exaggerating the specifics of its point of view to elevate it to the point of “privilege”. I use this exaggeration to draw attention to the theoretical double dimension of that viewpoint. A first one, easy to understand and perhaps to accept, highlights the sociological reading of past fashion trends, as may History of Art, Costume or Fashion. A second one would dare to reflect, or to invite us to reflect, on this other point of view, one that would condition the very birth of Fashion from Sociology. Fashion is analyzed both a posteriori and a priori, and here, where Fashion is the effect of a sociological cause, and not the other way round, is where the true interest of my article would lie. Do women’s trousers, women’s tailored suits, women’s tuxedos –psychoanalytically robbed from men during the twentieth century– precede the emancipation of women or is it the other way around? Didthe miniskirt always appear after women’s sexual liberation, or was it the other way around in some countries? Did the hippie movement give rise to the hippie clothes style or did the hippie style, in its worldwide expansion, invite participation in a lifestyle consistent with that change in clothing? We are used to seeing Fashion as an effect. Could it be a cause? We are used to Sociology explaining a phenomenon, would we be willing to accept that it can at times be the cause of it?KEY WORDS: sociology, fashion, cause, art object, context.

Cosmological distances scale. Pt. 12. Confluence analysis, rang inversion and tests for inadequacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
S. F. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Distance Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cosmological Distance Scale ◽  
Cosmological Distance ◽  
Statistical Heterogeneity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe

The measurement problem of calibration of the cosmological distance scale is considered from the point of view of the conditions of applicability of the regression analysis. It is shown that the rank inversion and statistical heterogeneity of data on supernovae SN Ia, which were used in 1998–1999 to detect the “acceleration of the expansion of the Universe”, and in 2004–2007 – as “extraordinary evidence” of its existence, is the reason for the discrepancy and inconsistency of the obtained estimates of the parameters of the Friedman-Robertson-Walker model. Although the use of tests for inadequacy for models of the cosmological distance scale reduces these negative effects, the fact remains that the cosmological distance scale based on redshift has neither the status of metric nor ordinal.

scholarly journals Life and Evolution in terms of maximum entropy production principle

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Martyushev
Keyword(s):  
Entropy Production ◽  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Equilibrium Problems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Maximum Entropy Production ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe

Maximum entropy production principle (MEPP) has been formulated in the mid-twentieth century, and today it has acquired the status of an important principle of science, which is extremely effective in considering various non-equilibrium problems. In this study, for the first time, definition of life is based on an easily measurable physical quantity that is entropy production. Life and evolution are discussed from the point of view of MEPP and the Universe, but not a human.

scholarly journals Life and Evolution in Terms of Maximum Entropy Production Principle

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Martyushev
Keyword(s):  
Entropy Production ◽  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Equilibrium Problems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Maximum Entropy Production ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe

Maximum entropy production principle (MEPP) has been formulated in the mid-twentieth century, and today it has acquired the status of an important principle of science, which is extremely effective in considering various non-equilibrium problems. In this study, for the first time, definition of life is based on an easily measurable physical quantity that is entropy production. Life and evolution are discussed from the point of view of MEPP and the Universe, but not a human

Otherness in More’s Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (Number 205- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Guillaume Navaud
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Old World ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Utopia as a concept points towards a world essentially alien to us. Utopia as a work describes this otherness and confronts us with a world whose strangeness might seem disturbing. Utopia and Europe differ in their relationship to what is other (Latin alienus) – that is, that which belongs to someone else, that which is foreign, that which is strange. These two worlds are at odds in regards to their foreign policy and way of life: Utopia aspires to self-sufficiency but remains open to whatever good may arrive from beyond its borders, while the Old World appears alienated by exteriority yet refuses to welcome any kind of otherness. This issue also plays a major part in the reception of More’s work. Book I invites the reader to distance himself from a European point of view in order to consider what is culturally strange not as logically absurd but merely as geographically remote. Utopia still makes room for some exoticism, but mostly in its paratexts, and this exoticism needs to be deciphered. All in all, Utopia may invite us to transcend the horizontal dialectics of worldly alterity in order to open our eyes to a more radical, metaphysical otherness.

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