scholarly journals The Epistemic Role of Outlaw Emotions

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Silva
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
Epistemic Value ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Epistemic Role ◽  
Epistemic Insight

Outlaw emotions are emotions that stand in tension with one’s wider belief system, often allowing epistemic insight one may have otherwise lacked. Outlaw emotions are thought to play crucial epistemic roles under conditions of oppression. Although the crucial epistemic value of these emotions is widely acknowledged, specific accounts of their epistemic role(s) remain largely programmatic. There are two dominant accounts of the epistemic role of emotions: The Motivational View and the Justificatory View. Philosophers of emotion assume that these dominant ways of accounting for the epistemic role(s) of emotions in general are equipped to account for the epistemic role(s) of outlaw emotions. I argue that this is not the case. I consider and dismiss two responses that could be made on behalf of the most promising account, the Justificatory View, in light of my argument, before sketching an alternative account that should be favoured.

scholarly journals On the Epistemic Value of Eros. The Relationship Between Socrates and Alcibiades

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Laura Candiotto
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Value ◽  
New Model ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epistemic Role

Several key lines concerning the relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades, extracted from the Symposium and the Alcibiades 1, are discussed for the purpose of detecting the epistemic value that Plato attributed to eros in his new model of education. As result of this analysis, I argue for the philosophical significance of the relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades as a clear example – even when failed – of the epistemic role of eros in the dialogically extended knowledge.

scholarly journals On the Epistemic Value of Eros. The Relationship Between Socrates and Alcibiades

2017 ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Laura Candiotto
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Value ◽  
New Model ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epistemic Role

Several key lines concerning the relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades, extracted from the Symposium and the Alcibiades 1, are discussed for the purpose of detecting the epistemic value that Plato attributed to eros in his new model of education. As result of this analysis, I argue for the philosophical significance of the relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades as a clear example – even when failed – of the epistemic role of eros in the dialogically extended knowledge.

scholarly journals Pragmatic epistemology and the community of engaged actors

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-406
Author(s):  
Srdjan Prodanovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Epistemic Role

In this paper I will explore the relation between engagement and social science. I will try to argue that positivist epistemology found in the early days of social sciences still greatly influences our understanding of social engagement. In the first part of the paper, I will analyze the epistemology of social sciences advocated by Fourier and Saint-Simon and try to show that, for them, scientific method was primarily the means for taming social change, as well as projecting private desires and plans onto the public sphere. In the second part, I will offer an alternative account of social engagement using the epistemic role of the community found in pragmatism.

scholarly journals Maintaining Relationship Through Magibung Local Wisdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 775-786
Author(s):  
I Ketut Sudarsana ◽  
I Nyoman Ananda ◽  
Ni Nengah Selasih ◽  
I Made Suta ◽  
Ni Gusti Ayu Agung Nerawati
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
Community Relationships

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to find the role of magibung in maintaining community relationships. The implementation of magibung in the belief system is one form of local wisdom in the middle of the Hindu community, especially in Bali. Magibung which is supported by the community through religious ceremonies is one way to strengthen relationships in the Hindu community. It does not only has an impact on the successful implementation of religious ceremonies but also unity and foster "meyama braya" attitude meyama braya.Keywords : Tradition, Local Wisdom, and relationship in Hindu community AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan peranan kearifan lokal magibung dalam menjaga persaudaraan masyarakat. Pelaksanaan tradisi magibung pada sistem kepercayaan merupakan salah satu bentuk kearifan lokal di tengah masyarakat Hindu khususnya di Bali. Tradisi magibung yang didukung oleh masyarakat melalui kegiatan upacara keagamaan merupakan salah satu jalan untuk mempererat persaudaraan masyarakat Hindu. Hal ini tidak hanya berdampak pada suksesnya pelaksanaan upacara keagamaan, tetapi juga persatuan dan menumbuhkan sikap meyama braya.Kata Kunci : Tradisi, Kearifan Lokal, dan Persaudaraan Umat Hindu 

Emotions and Incommensurable Moral Concepts

Philosophy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Randel Koons
Keyword(s):  
Moral Discourse ◽  
Moral Practice ◽  
Moral Concept ◽  
Moral Concepts ◽  
Moral Realist ◽  
Epistemic Role

Many authors have argued that emotions serve an epistemic role in our moral practice. Some argue that this epistemic connection is so strong that creatures who do not share our affective nature will be unable to grasp our moral concepts. I argue that even if this sort of incommensurability does result from the role of affect in morality, incommensurability does not in itself entail relativism. In any case, there is no reason to suppose that one must share our emotions and concerns to be able to apply our moral concept successfully. Finally, I briefly investigate whether the moral realist can seek aid and comfort from Davidsonian arguments to the effect that incommensurability in ethics is in principle impossible, and decide that these arguments are not successful. I conclude that the epistemic role our emotions play in moral discourse does not relativize morality.

scholarly journals Democratic Deficit or the Europeanisation of Secession? Explaining the Devolution Referendums in Scotland

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Dardanelli
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
European Context ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Actual Vote ◽  
Explicit Comparison

This article deals with the variation in the demand for self-government in Scotland – as measured by the vote in the two referendums – between 1979, when devolution was rejected, and 1997, when devolution was endorsed. The existing literature mainly deals with each of the two referendums in isolation and does not offer an explicitly comparative analysis of them. However, implicit comparisons contained in analyses of the 1997 referendum tend to identify as the main cause of the variation the ‘democratic deficit’ created by Conservative rule between 1979 and 1997, which was consistently rejected in Scotland. I take issue with this explanation on theoretical and empirical grounds and advances an alternative account grounded in an explicit comparison of the two referendums. Based on a rationalist approach, the analysis presented here identifies three key elements in the voting dynamics at the two points in time – a gap between support for self-government and the actual vote in the referendum; an interaction effect between attitudes to devolution and to independence; and the role of the European context in shaping perceptions of independence. I argue that significant change in these three variables (rather than a ‘democratic deficit’) appear to have been the most important determinants of the different results of the two referendums.

Perception, Knowledge, and Understanding in Aristotle’s Epistemology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Marc Gasser-Wingate
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Epistemic Value ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Domain I ◽  
Explanatory Structure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epistemic Role

In this chapter I consider how we should approach questions about the relationship between perception and the more advanced cognitive states Aristotle thinks derive from it. I argue that it’s reasonable to talk of perceptual knowledge, and explain how I will be using various knowledge terms to capture the different cognitive states that feature in Aristotle’s epistemology. I then offer an account of scientific understanding (Aristotle’s epistemic ideal) as a form of theoretical expertise requiring a synoptic, reflective appreciation of the explanatory structure of some domain. I argue we should resist views that would make scientific understanding the sole locus of justification, and on which perception would therefore never play any significant epistemic role. I also raise some concerns about invoking talk of justification in this context, and suggest an alternative conception of epistemic value which I think better fits Aristotle’s descriptions of our learning.

Stratification and Social Mobility, Slavery in Islam

2016 ◽  
pp. 250-271
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Status Inconsistency ◽  
General Proposition ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Latent Function

In this chapter we propose a Weberian three dimensionality of stratification to explore the amount of upward and downward movement that goes on within and between Islamic societies and the industrial world. Our argument regarding social mobility provides intriguing clues as to the connection between legal systems (specifically civic laws based on religious jurisprudence), and stratification systems. We will discuss the issue of slavery and status inconsistency and contrast it with the caste system, which forbids upward, downward, inter-caste and intergenerational social mobility. We argue that the slavery system of stratification is more complex than the caste system, as there is an element of uprising and resistance built into the slave system by means of religious economic values. We will pay close attention to the role of Islam as a belief system which provides pathways for social mobility through the production and distribution of goods and services. In a previous chapter on sociality and inequality, a general proposition was made that, as human groups are formed, ranking and hierarchies come into existence in correspondence with rewards and the manner in which they should be distributed. From this viewpoint, inequality is a manifest function of a sociality whose latent function is to create poverty. This is an ethical issue for which Islam devised a variety of mechanisms to address. . For Marx, with his locus of attention on the specific, inequality is a manifest function of capitalism whose latent functions, among others, are monopolization and the enlargement of stratification.

Criteria

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie McGinn
Keyword(s):  
Other Minds ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Central Notion

The concept of criteria has been interpreted as the central notion in the later Wittgenstein’s account of how language functions, in contrast to the realist semantics of the Tractatus. According to this later account, a concept possesses a sense in so far as there are conditions that constitute non-inductive evidence for its application in a particular case. This condition on a concept’s possessing a sense has been thought to enable Wittgenstein to refute both solipsism and scepticism about other minds. There are powerful objections to this conception of criteria, which have led some philosophers to look for an alternative account of the role of criteria in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy.

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