Controversies and subjectivity

This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of 'I' and 'self'. From both theoretical and...

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Otros Autores:	Barrotta, Pierluigi (-), Dascal, Marcelo
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co c2005.
Edición:	1st ed
Colección:	Controversies ; v. 1.
Materias:	Conflict (Psychology) Subjectivity.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798380306719

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Controversies and Subjectivity
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Controversies on the subject and the subjects in controversies
2. An epistemological excursus
3. De-dichotomizing traditional philosophical dichotomies
4. The subject and its social dimension
5. Perspectives on ``the first person''
6. Philosophical thought and inner debate
7. The subject against itself?
References
Discussing with oneself
Debating with myself and debating with others
1. Introduction
2. Varieties and sources of self-debate
3. Intra-personal and inter-personal debates: Metonymic relations
4. Inter-personal and intra-personal debates: Metaphorical relations
5. Towards a typology of intra-personal debate: The Aristotelian clue
6. Self-deception and the splitting of the self
7. Towards a typology of self-debate: `Hard' and `soft' rationality
8. A soft-partitioned self?
Notes
References
Being in accordance with oneself
1. Introduction
2. Plato: Psychic health as a metaphor of being in accordance with oneself
2.1. The parts of the soul (Republic)
2.2. Reflexive inconsistency (Gorgias)
3. The Aristotelian model of self-relation
3.1. Being a friend to oneself
3.2. The right way of `self-love' as an issue of self-controversy
4. Final remarks
Notes
References
Conversion and controversy
1. Relations
2. Differences
2.1. Semiotic structures
2.2. Temporal structures
3. Similarities
3.1. Representations of time
3.2. Representations of identity
4. Intersections
4.1. An example of intra-subjective controversy: Die Blendung
4.2. Chess
4.3. The self as theatre
4.4. Monologues and dialogues
5. Models
5.1. Conversion, controversy, and psychodynamics.
5.2. William James' interpretation of conversion
5.3. Accessing the mind
6. Stories
6.1. Selves, bodies, names
6.2. Miguel de Barrios
6.3. Fucan Fabian
6.4. The others
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Controversies and the logic of scientific discovery*
1. Introduction
2. Towards a model of scientific inquiry
3. Scientific controversies and the practice of science
4. Scientific controversies, subjectivity, and the objectivity of science
5. A case of scientific controversy
Notes
References
Controversies and dialogic intersubjectivity
1. Polemicity and subjectivity in philosophical discourse
1.1. The constitutive nature of polemicity for philosophy
1.2. The roles of subjectivity within internal and external controversy
1.3. Defining `internal' polemic from a discursive point of view
2. Interior discourse: Dialogue or soliloquy?
2.1. From someone to someone else: Philosophical dialogue as a kind of speech of the soul with itself and of the souls with each other
2.2. From self to self: The practice and writing of soliloquy as interior dialogue in Saint Augustine
2.3. First person narration: The writing of the self in Augustine's Soliloquies and Confessions
2.4. To speak to the other as to myself: Stoic diatribe and conversation (Epictetus' Conversations)
2.5. To address oneself as another: ``Thoughts'' or ``To myself'' by Marcus Aurelius
2.6. Speaking from oneself: The first person and interior monologue in Descartes' (metaphysical) meditations
2.7. To be addressed by God and to dialogue with him: Malebranche's (Christian and metaphysical) meditations
3. The relation between controversy and subjectivity: A pragmatic paradox?
Notes
References
Disagreement, self-agreement, and self-deception
1. Subjectivity and truth
2. Self-agreement and disagreement.
3. The philosophical principle of critique
4. Self-deception
Notes
References
The first person
Intersubjectivity in controversy
Notes
References
Subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of controversy-based thought
1. A historical outline of the two-logoi tradition
2. The two-logoi fragment: Philological and epistemic questions
2.1. The philological problem
2.2. The epistemic trouble: Pro two-logoi or against two-logoi?
3. From first person singular to first person plural
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Temporality, reification and subjectivity
1. Introduction
2. Antecedents of the controversy between the Academy and the Stoa
2.1. The status of thinking
2.2. The emergence of the concept of phenomenon
2.3. The problem of appearance
2.4. Appearances in society
2.5. New patterns in moral thinking
2.6. The emergence of the subjective attitude in poetry
2.7. The strengthening of philosophical consciousness
3. Reconstruction of the first phases of the controversy between the Academy and the Stoa
3.1. First phase of the controversy: The problem of teaching practical ethics
3.2. Second phase of the controversy: Appropriating the Socratic tradition
3.3. Third phase of the controversy: The Academy takes over the initiative
3.4. The problem of appearance in the conception of the cognitive phantasia
3.5. The Arcesilean answer to the stoic apraxia argument
4. Reconstruction of the fourth and fifth phase of the controversy between the Academy and the Stoa
4.1. Chrysippus and the problem of reference
4.2. The temporalization of the cognition process I
4.3. Fifth phase of the controversy: Lacydes and the criticism of the exactitude of memory
4.4. The temporalization of the cognition process II
4.5. Chrysippus and the double nature of phantasia.
5. The sixth phase of the controversy between the Academy and the Stoa: The criticism of the Chrysippean philosophy by Carneades
5.1. The Carneadean criticism of the stoic conception of phantasia
5.2. The weakening of the reference relation and the theory of probability
6. Seventh, closing phase of the academic-stoic controversy: ``Opening the gates''
7. ``Time remaining in soul'': The Chrysippean philosophy and its Carneadean criticism as the basis of Augustine's conception of time
8. Conclusions
8.1. A controversy rich in turning points from the viewpoint of the theory of controversy
8.2. Temporalization and reification as dimensions of the foundation of subjectivity
Notes
References
First person singular in 17th century controversies
1. Introductory remarks
2. On reading 17th century texts
3. Uses of first-person singular expressions
3.1. Justifying one's entering into a controversy
3.2. Making explicit aspects of text organisation
3.3. First person hedging
3.4. Contrastive (emphatic) uses
3.5. Self-praise and self-advertising
3.6. Presenting one's own observations and experience
3.7. Misunderstanding and self-interpretation
3.8. Claiming incomprehension
3.9. Personal narrative of one's progress from error to truth
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Subjective justifications
1. Introduction
2. ``Reports'' and ``appeals''
3. Berkeley's ``tree argument''
4. Experiments with the imagination
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Early Modern controversies and theories of controversy
1. Introduction
2. `Aspects of the subject' in Early Modern controversies
2.1. Function and evaluation of controversies
2.2. Entering into a controversy and answering points: Rights and duties
2.3. Person-related moves.
2.4. Meaning and understanding: Individual and ordinary language use
2.5. What is `personal style' in controversies?
3. Principles of communication
3.1. Principles governing the repertoire of moves
3.2. Principles about communicative attitudes of controversialists
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Externalism, internalism, and self-knowledge
1. Introduction
2. Some preconditions of ``controversy''
3. Epistemic function
4. Three types of growth of knowledge
5. Externalism and narrow content
6. Externalism and self-knowledge
7. Knowledge of content and self-knowledge
8. Knowledge of content and comparative knowledge of content
Notes
References
The politics of subjectivity
Liberals vs. communitarians on the self
1. Introduction
2. Restricting the scope of `liberalism' and `communitarianism'
3. Individualism and communitarianism
4. Choices and choosers
5. Morals and the concept of ``order''
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Ethical implications of de-dichotomization of identities in conflict
1. Introduction
2. Definitions and assumptions
3. Selected cases
3.1. The first case
3.2. The second case
3.3. The third case
4. Human identity vs. group identity
5. De-dichotomization
5.1. De-dichotomization in reflection
5.2. De-dichotomization in action (relation)
6. Moral de-dichotomization
References
The role of subjectivity in public controversy
1. Enola Gay: A political controversy
2. Recombinant DNA: A controversy between science and society
3. Spontaneous generation: A controversy within science
4. Defining the social emotions
5. Epistemological consequences
6. Conclusion
References
The Sokal affair
1. Setting the stage
2. Subjective evaluations of the outcome of the hoax.
3. Objective and subjective views of science.

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