scholarly journals Mental Attribution in Interaction: How the Second Person Perspective dissolves the Problem of Other Minds

Daímon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Gomila Benejam ◽  
Diana Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Classical Problem ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Simple Addition ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Traditional Problem ◽  
Problem Of Other Minds ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second Person Perspective

In this paper, we will address the question of the impact of the second person perspective of psychological attribution on the traditional problem of knowing other minds. With that purpose in mind, we will introduce the notion of a second-personal perspective of mental attribution within the context of the classical problem of other minds, and discuss the epistemic and ontological implications that follow once the second person perspective is honored. In particular, we will examine how its recognition transforms the traditional problem of other minds, both in its epistemological, ontological and semantical dimensions, and offers a way to go beyond the objective/subjective dichotomy of Modern Philosophy. A proper notion of intersubjectivity, we will argue, is not a simple addition to this dichotomy, but it offers the way to get over the traditional philosophical problems that follow from this modern philosophical paradigm.

scholarly journals Perspective and politeness in Finnish Requests

Pragmatics ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Reliable Tool ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Default Form ◽  
Second Person Perspective

This study makes use of elicited request speech act data in Finnish to view variability of personal perspective and T/V forms across a variety of situations. The speakers exhibited a great deal of congruency when they were scripted as addressing someone familiar, being in a position of equal or higher status than the interlocutor, and when the request was considered a low imposition. In such situations, speakers tended to use a second person perspective, with informal T/V forms. The Finnish T-forms were found to be the default form, showing up in half of the request utterances. The Finnish V-forms showed up in only 10 percent of the requests. A variationist analysis using Varbrul complemented the main findings, but was found to not be a reliable tool for elicited pragmatic data, using sociopragmatic factors as independent variables.

Gender Indeterminacy in Translation: the Case of R. L. Stine’s Give Yourself Goosebumps Gamebooks via Portuguese Translation

2018 ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Ana Brígida Paiva
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The North ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Second Person Perspective ◽  
Neutral Language

As works of fction, gamebooks offer narrative-bound choices – the reader generally takes on the role of a character inserted in the narrative itself, with gamebooks consequently tending towards being a story told in the second-person perspective. In pursuance of this aim, they can, in some cases, adopt gender-neutral language as regards grammatical gender, which in turn poses a translation challenge when rendering the texts into Portuguese, a language strongly marked by grammatical gender. Stemming from an analysis of a number of gamebooks in R. L. Stine’s popular Give Yourself Goosebumps series, this article seeks to understand how gender indeterminacy (when present) is kept in translation, while examining the strategies used to this effect by Portuguese translators – and particularly how ideas of implied readership come into play in the dialogue between the North-American and Portuguese literary systems.

scholarly journals Integrating qualitative research methodologies and phenomenology—using dancers’ and athletes’ experiences for phenomenological analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Ravn
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
Emic Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective

AbstractThis paper sets out from the hypothesis that the embodied competences and expertise which characterise dance and sports activities have the potential to constructively challenge and inform phenomenological thinking. While pathological cases present experiences connected to tangible bodily deviations, the specialised movement practices of dancers and athletes present experiences which put our everyday experiences of being a moving body into perspective in a slightly different sense. These specialised experiences present factual variations of how moving, sensing and interacting can be like for us as body-subjects. To use of these sources inevitably demands that qualitative research methodologies – especially short-term ethnographical fieldwork – form part of the research strategy and qualify the way the researcher involves a second-person perspective when interviewing dancers and athletes about their experiences. In the subsequent phases analysing the data generated, I argue that researchers first strive to achieve internal consistency of empirical themes identified in the case of movement practices in question thus keeping to a contextualised and lived perspective, also denoted as an emic perspective. In subsequent phases phenomenological insights are then actively engaged in the exploration and discussion of the possible transcendental structures making the described subjective experiences possible. The specialised and context-defined experiences of ‘what a moving body can be like’ are accordingly involved as factual variations to constructively add to and potentially challenge phenomenological descriptions. Lastly, I exemplify how actual research strategies have been enacted in a variety of projects involving professional dancers’, golfers’ and sports dancers’ practices and experiences, respectively.

THREE PROBLEMS OF OTHER MINDS

Think ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (51) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Chad Engelland
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Traditional Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
Problem Of Other Minds ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Everyday Experiences

The traditional problem of other minds is epistemological. What justification can be given for thinking that the world is populated with other minds? More recently, some philosophers have argued for a second problem of other minds that is conceptual. How can we conceive of the point of view of another mind in relation to our own? This article retraces the logic of the epistemological and conceptual problems, and it argues for a third problem of other minds. This is the phenomenological problem which concerns the philosophical (rather than psychological) question of experience. How is another mind experienced as another mind? The article offers dialectical and motivational justification for regarding these as three distinct problems. First, it argues that while the phenomenological problem cannot be reduced to the other problems, it is logically presupposed by them. Second, the article examines how the three problems are motivated by everyday experiences in three distinct ways.

Talking to each other and talking together: Joint language tasks and degrees of interactivity

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Gambi ◽  
Martin J. Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective

AbstractA second-person perspective in neuroscience is particularly appropriate for the study of communication. We describe how the investigation of joint language tasks can contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying interaction.

Intersubjectivity and Second-Person Perspective

Phenomenology ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
Shaun Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective

The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas's Ethics

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (256) ◽  
pp. 507-509
Author(s):  
Michael W. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective
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