Moore's Arguments and Scepticism

Dialogue ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-700
Author(s):  
Charles Raff
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
Famous Argument ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sceptical Conclusion ◽  
Philosophical Scepticism

Once, G. E. Moore scorned the “common point of view which takes the world of experience as ultimately real.” The argument Moore followed to this sceptical conclusion in his fledgling 1897 fellowship dissertation was a legacy from Kant's Antinomies. By 1899 Moore had renounced idealist conclusions; he set out both to disengage from Kantian arguments and to reconcile with “the world of experience.” Moore's work for a stable realist basis for knowledge to fulfil both aims occupied his most famous argument, in his 1939 lecture “Proof of an External World.” Moore himself is sometimes supposed to have thought the argument of this masterwork unsatisfactory where it treats a traditional sceptical puzzle posed by dreaming. Critics, including Wittgenstein, have portrayed Moore's best reply to philosophical scepticism as dogmatic mere assertion, unresponsive or as ineffectual as sheer handwaving. However, these critics rate Moore's success against scepticism based on interpretations of “Proof of an External World” that neglect its part in Moore's campaign against Kant. Consequently, some potentially pivotal questions — which in this study I merely broach — remain wide open; for example, why in presenting his famous 1939 proof did Moore state that its purpose was to refute what “Kant declares to be his opinion, that there is only one possible proof of the existence of things outside of us” (PXW, p. 145)? And why did Moore explicitly reject the formula for posing philosophical scepticism in which Kant famously proclaimed this problem “a scandal to philosophy”?

Imagistic Projection as Relational Becoming

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-282
Author(s):  
Felix Rebolledo Palazuelos ◽  
Andréia Machado Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Object Relation ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Projected Image ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Relational Proposition

The geometry of projected images onto screens is rather simple and can be quite readily understood through basic optics and Euclidian geometry. As a result of the imagistic immersion of the spectacle of cinema, one shares in the experience of spectatorship through the common subjectivity of the moving pictures and a common point of view. All spectators are served the same relational proposition that enfolds them within the encompassing reach of the projection before them. Still, the shared subjectivity of the content on the screen is different from the becoming-one with the projected screen image that we like to think as inhabiting us: the milieu of imagistic encounter associates what we refer to as the inside and the outside of experience to simultaneously emerge as a singular becoming. In the interest of undoing the dualistic spectator/screen relationship that perpetuates the divide of the subject/object relation, this chapter looks at the nature of the relation between the spectator and the screen and the formation of the projected image as a compositional assemblage where the moving images that ‘live within us as consciousness’ encompass the world we live in. This chapter seeks to answer the question of how we become one with the screen through an articulation of Deleuze’s concept of the fold by way of the optical perspective models of Alberti and Viator, Kepler’s explorations of continuity through the generalized understanding of conics and perspective, as well as the implications of Desargues’s projective geometry and a final resolution through topology.

scholarly journals Educational Impact of Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (97) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Souza Bispo ◽  
Eduardo Paes Barreto Davel
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Educational Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Abstract To think about the impacts of academic research on education is to think dynamically: education affects the ways of doing research (from the point of view of formal education) and is affected by research results that are little predictable and perceived due to constant negotiations among social actors in their daily socializations in different contexts. Management education (formal, non-formal and informal) affects and is affected by conflicting views of the world, which are produced within the field of management itself and whose impact as “beneficial” is not just a matter oriented primarily by economic, instrumental and financial aspects, but also for a negotiated understanding of the world that moves towards the common good. All research must be concerned with its power to affect educational vision and practice, directly or indirectly. How can this concern become perennial and central to the practice of academic research?

Shame and Guilt Inducing Drugs

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S24-S24
Author(s):  
G. DiPetta
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Stimulant Drug ◽  
Stimulant Drugs ◽  
The World ◽  
Shame And Guilt ◽  
The Common ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Sedative Drugs

The Author in this presentation examines the role of two complex human experiences, the Guilt and the Shame, in the field of the substances addiction. The population of abuser can be divided between users of sedatives and users of stimulants. Sedative drugs and stimulant drug belong to two different way of being-in-the-world. Sedative drugs are able to medicate the internal pain, which is constitutive of the guilt. Stimulant drugs are able to medicate the dysphoria, which is constitutive of the shame. In the realm of psychopathology Tellenbach with the concept of premelancholic personality in the guilty man and Kohut with the concept of narcissism in the tragic man have put the bases for a different typification. In both cases, the common final result, from a psychopathological point of view, is a severe crisis of the temporalization.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Varia: Another Kind of Cross-Border Journalism – Making Sense of the Journalistic Experience of the Blog „The Bridge of Friendship“

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Mitev
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Mutual Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

This publication examines the notion of ‘cross-border journalism’ in its western form. It also attempts to present an alternative cross-border journalism based on the experience of the author with the Romanian-Bulgarian “The Bridge of Friendship” blog and the impressions received from other Bulgarian cross-border websites. The international brand of cross-border journalism is used for investigations – such as “The Panama Papers” – which involve the cooperation of journalists from various countries. The kind of cross-border journalism found in the “Bridge of Friendship” blog is both local and regional. It does not have an investigative element but it tries to bring about change through the mutual knowledge and understanding of Romanians and Bulgarians. It defines a Bulgarian-Romanian point of view of the world and presents the common Romanian-Bulgarian spaces in politics, economy and culture.

Brain World or Life World? Critique of Neuroconstructivism

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-156
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Phantom Limb ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Life World ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatially Extended ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Brain

From a neuro-constructivistic point of view, the brain creates an internal simulation of the external world which appears as the phenomenal world in consciousness. This view presupposes in particular that the subjective body and the organic or objective body belong to two fundamentally different worlds, the mental and the physical. The spatiality of the subject-body must then be declared an illusion, for example by referring to dissociations of the subject- and object-body as in the rubber hand illusion or the phantom limb. However, this alleged virtuality of body experience can be refuted by the intersubjectivity of perception, which confirms the co-extensivity of subject-body and object-body. Subjectivity thus proves to be as embodied as it is spatially extended, that means, as bodily being-in-the-world.

scholarly journals Bolshevik Russia as a “World of Death” (Based on the Book by I. A. Bunin “Damned Days”)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
T. G. Putilina
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Living World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Negative Connotation

Life / death contrasting is fundamental to the reconstruction of national paintings of the world. In each culture, the experiences associated with opposition life / death are expressed in specific traditions and rites and, accordingly, are enshrined in the language in a certain way. The author’s language picture of the world is based on the common language picture of the world, which is formed as a result of the generalization of knowledge received by native speakers. In literary works, it is often the opposition to life / death that contains semantic features that reflect the author’s linguistic picture of the world. Of particular interest to the study are the memories of famous writers, in which they presenttheir impressions of iconic historical events and creative personalities. It is in such texts that the author’s features of the language are clearly manifested, characteristic language means for expressing a certain attitude towards people and their position in the current situation. The material of our study is the collection “Damned Days” by writer Ivan Bunin. The scientific novelty of the work is that the work of I. Bunin is considered in a new aspect, from the point of view of analyzing the meanings of words and expressions used in the text to contrast two worlds, the world of old Russia and the world of Bolshevik Russia, and the language means used by the writer. The work concludes that I. Bunin uses techniques to negatively characterize people, with the help of which the semantics of characters from the “world of death” are actualized. By using zoomorphisms, describing a person with the inclusion of inanimate objects, listing diseases, comparing with the corpse and words with a negative connotative color, the author shows that the described characters do not belong to real living people. Thus, the author verbally “displaces” people hated by him from the world of the living and paints a special, inverted “antiworld” – “world of the dead.” This world is also defined by the author of the work as “horror,” “terrible” with the use of corresponding lexes. In the author’s picture of the world, Bolshevik Russia is a “dead” world, opposed to the “living” world of old Russia. The author uses language tools such as metaphors, comparisons, occasionalisms. Vocabulary has a negative connotation, sometimes bright to such an extent that it is invective. The world of old Russia is opposed to this world. Its representatives are called the opposite in meaning: these are beautiful, healthy, believing people.

scholarly journals «God is dead» as an apophatic text of the borderline consciousness

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Irina Yedoshina
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Border Line ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Dionysius The Areopagite ◽  
The World ◽  
Introductory Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

The main theme of the article is the borderline conscious-ness; the subject is the novella «God Is Dead» (1922) by S. D. Krzhizhanovsky as a reflection of the borderline consciousness. The purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics of the borderline conscious-ness in general and its features in the culture of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries using the example of the analysis of the novella «God Is Dead», as well as of other texts similar in content and the time of writing. The main methods are ontological, historical-cultural, analytical, and com-parative. The introductory part defines the main characteristics of the bor-derline consciousness and also clarifies the etymology and the immanence of the process in development of the human society. Further, the author of the article identifies the substantive aspects in the concept of «apophati-cism», draws on the names of philosophers that are relevant to the thoughts of S. D. Krzhizhanovsky, (F. Nietzsche, A. Schweitzer, M. Heidegger), emphasizes that negation has nothing to do with God, from the point of view of Dionysius the Areopagite. The common and different aspects of philosophical and artistic views on apophaticism are also analyzed (F. Nietzsche, K. K. Sluchevsky). Further, the researcher carries out a de-tailed analysis of the novella «God Is Dead»by S. D. Krzhizhanovsky: the compositional structure is examined, an overview of the characters and their peculiarities is given, biblical and artistic allusions, their correlation with the specificity of the Soviet regime are revealed. The author of the article specially emphasizes that S. D. Krzhizhanovsky resorts to apophaticism as a characteristic of this time. The polemic part designates different approaches in the modern interpretation of apophaticism in the novella by S. D. Krzhizhanovsky, which do not coincide with the understanding of the author of this article. In the final observations, it is emphasized: the border-line consciousness thinks within the boundaries, which is reflected in art and outlook on the world.

Stroud's Dream Argument Critique

Philosophy ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 68 (266) ◽  
pp. 473-482
Author(s):  
John O. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
External World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Assumption ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One ◽  
Philosophical Scepticism

In his recent work, The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, Barry Stroud proposes to carry out an in-depth critique of the attempt by philosophers to invalidate all knowledge of an external world on the basis of Descartes' dream argument. His more particular aims in this endeavour are to uncover significant features of any such scepticism and to disclose in the process fundamental aspects of ‘human knowledge’ itself. Thus, among other features of knowledge that his study discloses, he thinks, is, echoing Kant, the idea ‘that a completely general distinction between everything we get through the senses, on the one hand, and what is true or not true of the external world, on the other, would cut us off forever from knowledge of the world around us.’ And a significant feature of Cartesian dream scepticism he believes to have uncovered is that its ‘effectiveness’ rests upon the philosopher's traditional assumption of an objectively existent world that is understandable ‘from a detached “external” viewpoint.’

scholarly journals Impacto Educacional da Pesquisa

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (97) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Souza Bispo ◽  
Eduardo Paes Barreto Davel
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Educational Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Abstract To think about the impacts of academic research on education is to think dynamically: education affects the ways of doing research (from the point of view of formal education) and is affected by research results that are little predictable and perceived due to constant negotiations among social actors in their daily socializations in different contexts. Management education (formal, non-formal and informal) affects and is affected by conflicting views of the world, which are produced within the field of management itself and whose impact as “beneficial” is not just a matter oriented primarily by economic, instrumental and financial aspects, but also for a negotiated understanding of the world that moves towards the common good. All research must be concerned with its power to affect educational vision and practice, directly or indirectly. How can this concern become perennial and central to the practice of academic research?

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