Is Rorty a linguistic idealist?

Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Marvan
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Intrinsic Nature ◽  
Internal Realism ◽  
Causal Independence ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Linguistic Idealism

AbstractThe paper addresses the recurrent charge that Richard Rorty is a “linguistic idealist”. I show what the charge consists of and try to explain that there is a charitable reading of Rorty’s works, according to which he is not guilty of linguistic idealism. This reading draws on Putnam’s well-known conception of “internal realism” and accounts for the causal independence of the world on our linguistic practices. I also show how we can reconcile this causal independence of things and the sense of our discourse being guided by them with our autonomy with regard to the construction of various “vocabularies” with which we describe, or cope with, reality. In the final part, I address in some detail Rorty’s animadversions concerning the idea of the intrinsic nature of reality. I show them to be only partly successful.

Hegel's Critique of Foundationalism in the “Doctrine of Essence”

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Houlgate
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
The World

It is a commonplace among certain recent philosophers that there is no such thing as the essence of anything. Nietzsche, for example, asserts that things have no essence of their own, because they are nothing but ceaselessly changing ways of acting on, and reacting to, other things. Wittgenstein, famously, rejects the idea that there is an essence to language and thought — at least if we mean by that some a priori logical structure underlying our everyday utterances. Finally, Richard Rorty urges that we “abandon […] the notion of ‘essence’ altogether”, along with “the notion that man's essence is to be a knower of essences”.It would be wrong to maintain that these writers understand the concept of essence in precisely the same way, or that they are all working towards the same philosophical goal. Nevertheless, they do share one aim in common: to undermine the idea that there is some deeper reality or identity underlying and grounding what we encounter in the world, what we say and what we do. That is to say, they may all be described as anti-foundationalist thinkers — thinkers who want us to attend to the specific processes and practices of nature and humanity without understanding them to be the product of some fundamental essence or “absolute”.

"Taking in the world". L'ereditŕ kantiana in John McDowell

PARADIGMI ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Anselmo Aportone
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
John Mcdowell ◽  
The World

McDowell carries on the dialogue with Kant opened by Sellars and Strawson. He is particularly interested in Kant's idea of intuition as an impression that is already an actualization of the conceptual capacities exercised by the knowing subject in judging. It enables him to release the contemporary discussion on intentionality from the stalemate between bald naturalism and coherentism. Because of the issues raised by both philosophers and some features of their arguments, it is undoubted that Mc- Dowell belongs to the Kantian heritage and exploits some of its elements. The final part of the essay aims at showing that these have in their original context a stronger und more definite meaning than in McDowell's proposal, and that it could be what we are in need of to make the latter more accurate.

scholarly journals Music-Makers and Reformed Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Jahdiel N Perez
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
The Church ◽  
Unique Power

ABSTRACT: If Reformed theology hopes to impact contemporary and future societies as much as possible it will have to harness the unique power of music to influence the world beyond the walls of the Church. In this essay, I want to draw attention to the ways in which Christianity, in general, and Reformed theology, in particular, are criticized through music and what we can do to respond. I will introduce an approach to Christian apologetics, which I call sonic-apologetics that enables our music-makers to defend the faith musically. In the first part of this paper, I will discuss five problems to which sonic-apologetics is an answer. This will anchor the second part of this essay, in which I construct sonic-apologetics from three notions: (1) methodological emphasis on effects, (2) genres of expression, and (3) the distinction between linear and angled apologetic responses. In the final part of this essay, I present two different study cases of sonic-apologetics. Nothing about what I will discuss regarding sonic-apologetics changing existing liturgical norms of Christian churches, especially Reformed ones. It does, however, call for those producing and performing music in these churches to direct their music-making interests and abilities toward the world outside the church walls. KEYWORDS: reformed theology, music, sonic-apologetics.

Tracing (de)colonial options in German philology around 1900

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Ingo H. Warnke
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Practices

The Berlin Lautarchiv holds a large collection of historical recordings with POWs during World War I. These recordings were produced with the prisoners in German camps by a group of German linguists, anthropologists, and musicologists in an ambitious project to ‘collect the languages of the world’. The acoustic documents were archived and are now digitally available. Most of the recordings with African prisoners and civilian internees were never translated, yet some of them surfaced in radio broadcasts and publications. By means of approaching acoustic, visual, and written traces in European archives, which relate to two of the speakers and their biographies, this chapter engages with linguistic practices, with epistemic regimes that framed the project of recording in camps, as well as its racist assumptions at specific moments of colonial knowledge production.

scholarly journals What We Know and What We Do Not Know about Dragon Trees?

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Maděra ◽  
Alan Forrest ◽  
Pavel Hanáček ◽  
Petr Vahalík ◽  
Roman Gebauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Final Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Tree Group

This article is a broad review focused on dragon trees—one of the most famous groups of trees in the world, well known from ancient times. These tertiary relicts are severely endangered in most of the area where they grow. The characteristic features of the dragon tree group are described and the species belonging to this group are listed. This review gathers together current knowledge regarding the taxonomy, evolution, anatomy and morphology, physiology, and ontogeny of arborescent dragon tree species. Attention is also paid to the composition, harvesting, medicinal, and ethnobotanical use of the resin (dragons’ blood). An evaluation of population structure, distribution, ecology, threats, and nature conservation forms the final part of the review. In the conclusions we recommend further avenues of research that will be needed to effectively protect all dragon tree species.

Smart Factory und Digitalisierung

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Smart Factory ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Developments

Industry 4.0 and digitalisation are current developments that are having a strong impact on the world of work and our society. However, their consequences are still relatively unclear. A look at four economically strong European countries (Germany, Italy, Sweden and Spain) shows that technological and economic developments as well as expectations are debated differently. This book is separated into four sections. Its first part provides an overview of the scope and effects of digitalisation. Its second and third parts focus on reports and results from the four countries mentioned above. These are based on expert discussions and a Delphi online survey conducted in three waves which asked questions on and developed future scenarios. The book’s final part deals with possible courses of action at the workplace and in politics. The articles this book contains are written in German or English and are complemented with summaries in German, English, Italian and Spanish. With contributions by Krister Andersson, Prof. Dr. Daniel Buhr, Dagmar Bürkardt, Sonia Cattaneo, Massimo Darchini, Laura Diéguez Ferrer, Bernd Dworschak, Dr. Miriam Ferrari, Dan Gabrielsson, Daniel Garrell Ballester, Karl-Ulrich Gscheidle, Anneke Ilsemann, Kent Kling, Dr. Harald Kohler, Norbert Kreuzkamp, Martin Kunzmann, Luis Lageder, Dr. Luca Lombi, Dr. Erika Mezger, Dr. Raphael Menez, Prof. Dr. Josef Schmid, Welf Schröter, Heinrich Tiemann.

Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
HILARY PUTNAM
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Metaphysical Realism ◽  
Internal Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Liberal Naturalism ◽  
Normative Judgments

ABSTRACT:This essay describes three commitments that have become central to the author's philosophical outlook, namely, to liberal naturalism, to metaphysical realism, and to the epistemic and ontological objectivity of normative judgments.Liberal naturalismis contrasted with familiar scientistic versions of naturalism and their project of forcing explanations in every field into models derived from one or another particular science. The form ofmetaphysical realismthat the author endorses rejects every form of verificationism, including the author's one-time ‘internal realism’, and insists that our claims about the world are true or false and not just epistemically successful or unsuccessful and that the terms they contain typically refer to real entities. ‘Representationalism is no sin’. The central part of the essay is an account oftruthbased on a detailed analysis of Tarski's theory of truth and of the insights we can get from it as well as of the respects in which Tarski is misleading. (This part goes beyond what the author has previously published on the subject.) The account ofthe objectivity of the normativein this essay draws on insights from Dewey as well as Scanlon.

scholarly journals Toward Pragmatic Realism in Human Geography

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (92) ◽  
pp. 161-179
Author(s):  
Courtice Rose
Keyword(s):  
Human Geography ◽  
Linguistic Terms ◽  
Internal Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Realism ◽  
Transcendental Realism ◽  
The Absolute

Classical realism describes the notion that the world we inhabit is completely mind-independent, that there is one unique account of the world and that truths about the world are a matter of the absolute correspondence between linguistic terms and their referents in the world. Human geographers have recently employed a form of transcendental realism inspired by the works of R. Bhaskar, A. Giddens and A. Sayer. This form of realism is anti-positivist and based on the dual notions of ontological stratification and emergent powers materialism. Reactions in geography have been both positive and negative indicating that neither classical realism, nor transcendental realism nor anti-realism seem acceptable. As a way of solving this dilemma, pragmatic (or internal) realism proposes the adoption of a natural ontological attitude toward the objects of geographical inquiry.

scholarly journals ‘God the Spirit’ – Michael Welker’s ‘biblical-realistic theology’

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henco Van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Final Part ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

The following essay attempts to offer a framework for Michael Welker’s ample theology of the Spirit by inquiring as to the impulses resonating from his <i>God the Spirit</i>. This is important because Welker’s entire theological endeavour is built upon the insights emanating from his theology of the Spirit. In the first part of the essay Welker’s theological hermeneutic with regards to the Spirit is made clear. The particular relation between the Spirit and Jesus Christ is explored in the second part of the essay. This relation is of importance in the light of his more recent <i>God the Revealed: Christology</i>. The work of the Spirit in the world is clarified in the third part of the essay. In the final part Welker’s conception of the Spirit is examined in light of the Apostolicum.

scholarly journals The Man-Shell

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Gordana Stamenković
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Modern Time ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

The author tends to analyze the main characteristics of the media today and the consequences of relevant media activity to the society and the man. A special place in the article is reserved for the consideration of the phenomenon referred to as the man-shell, that is, the way of online life that is becoming more frequent in modern time, and as such, more and more recognized. A part of the article is dedicated to the imperative of “continuous present” the modern media forces upon us, that is, the consequences of imperative Now to man's identity and authenticity, as well as his willingness to get socially and politically engaged. The final part of the article considers renewed awareness, the process that could be one of the means of escape from the world of illusions the modern media successfully create and a path of return to the natural, primary reality.

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