Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2256363
Peter West
ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to outline Dorothy Emmet's (1904–2000) account of perception in The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (published in 1945). Emmet's account of perception is part of a wider attempt to rehabilitate metaphysics in the face of logical positivism and verificationism (of the kind espoused most famously by A. J. Ayer). It is thus part of an attempt to stem the tide of anti-metaphysical thought that had become widespread in British philosophy by the middle of the twentieth century. Emmet does not fit neatly into the traditional story of twentieth-century British philosophy. She draws on figures like A. N. Whitehead and Henri Bergson much more extensively than figures like Russell or Moore – and thus straddles the so-called ‘analytic-continental divide.’ My aim in this paper is to put Emmet on the map of twentieth-century British thought by outlining her philosophy of perception, highlighting her proposals for a way forward for metaphysics in a time of crisis, and identifying the ways she preempts movements in contemporary philosophy of perception.KEYWORDS: Dorothy EmmetperceptionWhiteheadBergsonmetaphysics AcknowledgementsMany thanks to Matyáš Moravec and Emily Thomas for constructive feedback on earlier versions of this paper. Thanks also to participants at the Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit conference, organized by the (women) in parenthesis project (Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman), for feedback on a version of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Henceforth, I abbreviate The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking to ‘NMT’.2 Parts of Chapters VII and IX of NMT were previously published as Emmet, “Analogies in Metaphysics”.3 Exceptions include Leemon McHenry’s entry in a chapter on “Whitehead’s Contemporaries” in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (McHenry, “Whitehead’s Contemporaries”). See also Turner, “Deflated Functionalism” for a paper on Emmet and the sociologist Robert Merton. Emmet also appears briefly in the conclusion of Wiseman, “Metaphysical Thinking”, 91. In this paper, I go further than these papers, which focus on Emmet’s connection to more established figures, and emphasise the degree to which Emmet was an original thinker. Aside from these papers, I am aware of a handful of scholars working on (or who plan to work on) Emmet’s philosophy in the future, including Lawrence Blum. In particular, my reading of The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking was informed by a talk given by Fraser McBride in Durham in 2022 (https://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/british-twentieth-century-women-philosophers-on-science/). When it comes to the biographical details of Emmet’s life, alongside McHenry’s paper, I am indebted to obituaries in The Guardian and The Times from 2000.4 Emmet would continue to discuss the topic of perception in her writings on Whitehead and process philosophy (see, e.g. Emmet, “Whitehead and Alexander”), but NMT contains h
在这方面，埃米特的计划类似于g.e.安斯科姆在“感觉的意向性”中的计划(安斯科姆，“感觉的意向性”;有关讨论，请参见Mac Cumhaill和Wiseman的《形而上学的动物》)。Anscombe和Emmet都认为，直接现实主义者(naïve)和间接现实主义者之间的争论没有得到解决是有原因的，因为他们都在试图回答一个“糟糕的问题”:即，人类的心灵是如何认识外部世界的，以及心灵-精神客体-外部事物的三方关系是什么样子的。然而，当谈到我们应该做什么时，埃米特和安斯库姆的观点不同。安斯库姆为感觉的“语法”方法辩护，认为重点应该放在理解我们对感知体验的(口头)报告，以及那些由感觉概念塑造的其他生活形式上。安斯库姆认为，这样做反过来可以揭示感觉本身的结构。与安斯库姆相比，埃米特对远离关于知觉的形而上学或本体论问题不太感兴趣，但他仍然同意，我们应该从传统的方法出发，从主客体二分法的角度来理解知觉。参见玛格丽特·麦克唐纳的《语言哲学与感知》，她在书中也着手诊断为什么感知哲学的辩论似乎没有“进步”。和安斯库姆一样，麦克唐纳(他也曾师从维特根斯坦)认为“语言哲学”可能会提供一条前进的道路我们也可以将海德格尔作为影响埃米特观点的因素之一。埃米特指出了海德格尔和怀特海在感知方法上的相似之处。例如，她写道:“尽管海德格尔哲学的最终结果和重点与怀特黑德的非常不同，但海德格尔和怀特黑德都是从对经验主体的分析开始的……这种分析源于对世界的一种感受方式”(NMT, 65)同样值得注意的是，埃米特在牛津的导师a . D. Lindsay写了一本关于柏格森的书(Lindsay, The Philosophy of Bergson)，埃米特可能读过。感谢一位匿名的裁判指出了这一点塞缪尔·亚历山大(Samuel Alexander)在他的《物质与记忆》(Matter and Memory)评论中，将柏格森的“图像”与洛克的“观念”进行了比较，但与埃米特的“解释”的比较似乎更接近，因为柏格森的图像积极地塑造了我们对现实的感知(Alexander, mati<s:1> re et m<s:1> moire, 572)关于柏格森和埃米特之间的相似之处，还有更多可说的，我认为可以提出一个更有力的因果关系的案例。为什么埃米特没有像怀特黑德那样广泛地引用柏格森，这个问题也值得探讨。答案可能在于柏格森哲学在英语哲学中的命运，尤其是在罗素的《柏格森哲学》出版之后。例如，Matyáš Moravec认为，从20世纪30年代和40年代开始，柏格森的哲学开始被“怀疑对待”(Moravec，“Taking Time Seriously”，2;参见弗拉哈米斯的《罗素的批判》)。很可能，为了顺应潮流，埃米特只是希望避免对柏格森的哲学给予过多的尊重这不仅对从历史的角度理解埃米特的立场很重要，而且这也是埃米特观点的一个方面，可能会被当代感知哲学家所接受。(分析)感知哲学的辩论仍然典型地类似于埃米特所批评的辩论(参见，例如Crane和French，“感知问题”)。那些同情埃米特对这种辩论的批评的读者可能会把她自己的方法看作是一种前进的方式——“指责”和“指责”感知的区别是这种方法的重要组成部分。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2250816
Peter West
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2239025
Sebastian Luft
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2238780
Tobias Endres
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2239026
Samantha Matherne
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2247450
Pierre Le Morvan
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2239022
Scott Edgar
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2239024
Katherina Kinzel
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2242405
Ruth Boeker
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2240394
Ties Van Gemert
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