Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.377
Paolo Babbiotti, N. Krishnan, Mathis Marquier
The English original of Bernard Williams’s Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy was published in 1985. Since its publication, it has provoked a substantial body of philosophical commentary, sympathetic as well as critical. Williams’s introduction to the 1990 French translation of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is an unusual text and an illuminating new source for readers of Williams. Refreshingly, it reflects an effort on Williams’s part to establish a connection with a new set of readers. It is also the work of a philosopher relishing the freedoms that come from not having to connect with the old one. Does his introduction itself benefit from a further introduction? We believe that it does, and for the same reason that the book needed some prefatory words before it could be put into the hands of French readers: because the work is not, or no longer, fully self-explanatory.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.296
Laura La Bella
The aim of this paper is to provide a new reading of some crucial stages of Heidegger’s inquiry into human freedom. Moving from Heidegger’s critical interpretation of Kant’s concepts of trascendental and practical freedom in the 1930 lecture course Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. Einleitung in die Philosophie, I adress some of the most relevant questions this lecture raises. The lecture indeed seems to intriguingly open up a further hermeneutic perspective, which Heidegger only slightly touches upon but which nonetheless lays the premises for developing the peculiar sense that the notion of Freiheit assumes in Kant’s third Critique. Building on such an assumption, my guiding hypothesis is that the main outcomes of the 1930 lecture course should be integrated with Heidegger’s ontological radicalization of Kant’s notion of freie Gunst in terms of Seinlassen, as presented in the lectures on Nietzsche (1936-1939) qua the supreme mode of accomplishment of the essence of human freedom.
{"title":"The Essence of Human Freedom between Heidegger and Kant: Seinlassen and freie Gunst in the Contemplative Experience of the Being of Beings","authors":"Laura La Bella","doi":"10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.296","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to provide a new reading of some crucial stages of Heidegger’s inquiry into human freedom. Moving from Heidegger’s critical interpretation of Kant’s concepts of trascendental and practical freedom in the 1930 lecture course Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. Einleitung in die Philosophie, I adress some of the most relevant questions this lecture raises. The lecture indeed seems to intriguingly open up a further hermeneutic perspective, which Heidegger only slightly touches upon but which nonetheless lays the premises for developing the peculiar sense that the notion of Freiheit assumes in Kant’s third Critique. Building on such an assumption, my guiding hypothesis is that the main outcomes of the 1930 lecture course should be integrated with Heidegger’s ontological radicalization of Kant’s notion of freie Gunst in terms of Seinlassen, as presented in the lectures on Nietzsche (1936-1939) qua the supreme mode of accomplishment of the essence of human freedom.","PeriodicalId":41386,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Inquiries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89284143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.285
Giovanni Tuzet
One the themes of classical Pragmatism, at least in Peirce’s and Vailati’s philosophy, is the cognitive role of deductive inference. Is deduction a source of knowledge? The answer seems to be in the positive when it is claimed that deductive inference draws the consequences of our hypotheses and brings them to the test of experience. I basically agree with this claim, but I also think that a careful analysis is needed on what we mean in this context by “source” and “knowledge” in particular. We must distinguish, as Vailati did, heuristic from epistemic value. Making deductive predictions does not amount to acquiring knowledge, but it certainly has heuristic value. So, deduction is not a source of knowledge if by “source” we mean a necessary or a sufficient condition of it, but it is a source of knowledge if we mean something like a heuristic device.
{"title":"Is deduction a source of knowledge? Vailati on pragmatism and prediction","authors":"Giovanni Tuzet","doi":"10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.285","url":null,"abstract":"One the themes of classical Pragmatism, at least in Peirce’s and Vailati’s philosophy, is the cognitive role of deductive inference. Is deduction a source of knowledge? The answer seems to be in the positive when it is claimed that deductive inference draws the consequences of our hypotheses and brings them to the test of experience. I basically agree with this claim, but I also think that a careful analysis is needed on what we mean in this context by “source” and “knowledge” in particular. We must distinguish, as Vailati did, heuristic from epistemic value. Making deductive predictions does not amount to acquiring knowledge, but it certainly has heuristic value. So, deduction is not a source of knowledge if by “source” we mean a necessary or a sufficient condition of it, but it is a source of knowledge if we mean something like a heuristic device.","PeriodicalId":41386,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Inquiries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91093148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.324
Iain Campbell
This paper is concerned with the aesthetic and discursive gap between music and contemporary art, and the recent attempts to remedy this in the field of New Music through a notion of “New Conceptualism.” It examines why, despite musical sources being central to the emergence of conceptual artistic strategies in the 1950s and “60s, the worlds of an increasingly transmedial “generic art” and music have remained largely distinct. While it takes New Music’s New Conceptualism as its focus, it argues that the perspective on New Music it takes has wider implications in music and art. It begins by defining what exactly “New Music” refers to, and outlines some of the conditions for the recent rise of conceptualism in New Music. It then takes the work of the composer Johannes Kreidler as a key example of some artistic tendencies and theoretical presuppositions in New Conceptualism. Following this it draws on work in the field of sound studies in order to critically examine the theoretical attempt to connect New Music with contemporary art that is found in the notion of “Music in the Expanded Field.” To conclude it offers some reflections on how a more robust conversation between contemporary art and New Music can begin to be conceived.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.343
Remei Capdevila-Werning, S. Lehtinen
This article introduces the philosophical sub-specialty of intergenerational aesthetics, which centers in the study of aesthetic values and aesthetic choices taking into account the aesthetic appreciation of future generations. Acknowledging a temporal dependency between the present and the future in aesthetics offers a new perspective to explore aesthetic values, perception, and judgments as well as practical aesthetic decisions. This essay discusses the main concerns of intergenerational aesthetics, including its theoretical stakes, its disciplinary and interdisciplinary influences, its normative aspect, the role of intergenerational thinking in theory and practice, and presents a specific case to illustrate the pressing importance of introducing intergenerational considerations to our current aesthetic practices. It also proposes a series of potential avenues of research for further investigations in the field.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.290
L. Summa
In this paper, I consider the relationship between fashion styles, with a focus on clothing and accessories, and identity. Specifically, I investigate the role played by fashion in three distinct, but often intertwined instances. First, I consider the relation between the choice of a given style and the establishment of collective identity. I then move to the analysis and comparison between what is implied by the possession of a “fashionable style” and by what is instead regarded as “personal style”. The goal is to show both how fashionable styles emerge and gain popularity and how personal styles affect the notion of personal identity. Importantly, I argue for the active role of fashion: a personal style does not simply underline character traits, it is constitutive of identity and can effectively shape who we are.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.301
Matteo Plebani
The standard question about the semantic paradoxes is how we should solve them. Wittgenstein raised a different question: whether we should solve them. In this paper, I argue that we have two reasons to take the question raised by Wittgenstein seriously. First, reflecting on the question posed by Wittgenstein might free us from a philosophical ideal, the assumption that we should reason according to strictly valid logical principles, in the sense of Hofweber (2008; 2009). Second, reflecting on Wittgenstein’s question might lead us to realize a possibly obvious, but important, point: the fact that several logical principles are jointly inconsistent does not show that one of them is more problematic than the others, for the same reason why the fact that several plans of action are jointly inconsistent does not show that one of them is more problematic than the others.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.325
Timothy Deane-Freeman
In this article, I map some of the philosophical implications of that collection of aesthetic practices grouped under the moniker of "Afrofuturism" since Mark Dery's first deployment of the term in 1993. In so doing, I advance several (inter)related theses. First, that aesthetic philosophy should look to Afrofuturism for a model of emancipatory political art, such as it supposes lost with the high modernism of the 20th century. Second, that an engagement with the culturally and commerically immanent modes of Afrofuturist production will help to realise Benjamin's dream, of an aesthetic philosophy no longer dedicated to the "aura" of bourgeois art objects. And finally, following Deleuze and Guattari, I claim that Afrofuturism opens up the space for reflection on a "minoritarian" politics, such as might replace traditional Marxist accounts of class antagonism and help us to reconceive the "resistance" so sorely needed today.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.345
Andrea Maistrello
Contemporary art is frequently accused to be fraudulent. Usually explained away as an epiphenomenon, the experience of fraudulence is rarely investigated per se. This paper closely examines Stanley Cavell’s stance on the issue, comparing it with the positions implied in Arthur Danto’s, Nelson Goodman’s and Richard Wollheim’s aesthetics. Reflections on examples of fraudulent art in the history of visual art lead to partly dismiss Cavell’s position in his own term: fraudulent art can be part of the media resources which might allow an artist to “keep faith with tradition.” The impression of fraudulence is then dependent on the ontology of contemporary artworks.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.4454/PHILINQ.V9I2.341
Xavier de Donato Rodríguez
This contribution aims to explore a certain ontological approach to architectural works called ‘environmental integralism’, according to which the architectural work does not run out in the building, but includes at least part of the environment in which the building is located. Social context is also relevant in order to assess its functional and its aesthetic values. Not only that, environmental integralism may be understood as a form of paving the way for developing an ethical approach to architecture. In this sense, this talk tries to focus on the social and environmental role in architectural appreciation. This should be understood as showing how ontological debates may have an influence on aesthetic as well as on ethical considerations.
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