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Dascal on controversies

Posted on August 10th, 2008 in Chaim Perelman, Darwinism, Gilles-Gaston Granger, Hegel, Jacques Derrida, John Searle, Kant, Karl Popper, Lakatos, Marcelo Dascal, Mary Hesse, Schopenhauer, Thomas Kuhn, argumentation, epistemology, paraconsistency, philosophers, philosophical style, positivism, pragmatics, rationality, scientific revolution, speech acts.

Dascal, Marcelo. Types of polemics and types of polemical moves. In S. Cmejrkova, J. Hoffmannova, O. Mullerova, and J. Svetla, Dialogue Analysis VI (= Proceedings of the 6th Conference, Prague 1996), vol. 1. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 15-33, 1998 [Reprinted in H.S. Gill and G. Manetti (eds.), Signs and Signification, vol. II, New Delhi: Bahri Publication, [...]

Dascal on disputation & the analytical-continental divide

Posted on August 6th, 2008 in Carnap, French philosophy, Habermas, Heidegger, J. L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, John Searle, Kant, Karl Popper, Marcelo Dascal, Richard Rorty, Thomas Kuhn, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, analytical philosophy, argumentation, continental philosophy, historiography of philosophy, intellectual life, irrationalism, philosophers, philosophical style, positivism, postmodernism, progress.

Dascal, Marcello. How rational can a polemic across the analytic-continental ‘divide’ be?, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 9(3): 313-339, 2001. In order to specify controversy’s position within the large family of polemical dialogues, I propose to distinguish between three members of the subfamily to which controversies belong. I will call them ‘discussion’, ‘dispute’, and ‘controversy’. [...]

Philosophical languages, Romantic historicism, Hegel, Marx

Posted on August 6th, 2008 in Enlightenment, German philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Romanticism, ars combinatoria, artificial languages, historicism, ideology, language, philosophical style.

Edited from original of 08 July 2006: Cook, Daniel J. “Marx’s Critique Of Philosophical Language,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 42 (June 1982): 530-554. ABSTRACT: Though Marx never systematically developed a theory of language, he often commented in his pre-1848 writings on the role of language in traditional philosophies and ideologies. In this paper, I examine [...]

Spinoza’s Semantics

Posted on August 5th, 2008 in Enlightenment, Leibniz, Spinoza, artificial languages, atheism, language, philosophical style, scientific revolution, semantics.

Jongeneelen, Gerrit H. “Semantic Change and the Semantics of Spinozism,” Lexicon Philosophicum 11 (2001): 111-128. This article explores Spinoza’s philosophy of language, puts it into the context of the linguistic thought of his time as well as Dutch linguistic usage, and raises the question of Spinoza’s relation to semantic revolution. In addition, this article is [...]

Borges Revisited (14)

Posted on February 2nd, 2007 in Jorge Luis Borges, idealism, philosophical style.

Gracia, Jorge J. E.; Korsmeyer, Carolyn; Gasché, Rodolphe; eds. Literary Philosophers?: Borges, Calvino, Eco. New York: Routledge, 2002. Contents. I begin with skepticism about centering interest in Borges around postmodern concerns, but I am on the lookout for analysis relevant to my interests. I have no specific objections to raise here, if only because I [...]