Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2250180
Graham Clay
ABSTRACT In her book Experience Embodied, Anik Waldow challenges and reimagines the traditional interpretative approach to the concept of experience in the early modern period. Traditionally, commentators have emphasized early moderns’ views on the first-person perspective and eschewed the relevance of our embodiment to their epistemological outlooks. My focus here is on Waldow’s chapter on Hume, wherein she analyzes Hume’s account of our capacity for reflective moral judgment, arguing that he understands it as natural despite the countless ways in which our embodied social experiences impinge on it. After detailing Waldow’s contributions, I clarify, corroborate, and criticize them. Since I contend that Waldow is broadly successful in her interpretative efforts, I suggest that she undermines the traditional interpretative approach to experience in the early modern period, but not in the sense that she moves us away from the epistemological towards other lenses. Rather, Waldow should be understood as showing that, at least in the case of Hume’s metaethics, the epistemological is embodied, is social, and is both cognitive and sentimental.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2250185
Anik Waldow
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2237026
Hope Sample
ABSTRACTAnne Conway’s commitment to the moral responsibility of creatures, or created beings, is seemingly in tension with her unique metaphysics. Conway is committed to individual moral responsibility. Conway insists that an innocent person ought not be punished for someone else’s sin. Interesting recent work highlights a unique aspect of Conway’s position that creatures are multiplicities: not only are creatures integrated into the larger whole of creation, but also their parts are mutually integrated into one another. The latter, which I will call ‘ontological overlap,’ renders the boundaries between creatures unclear. However, creatures must be distinct enough from each other to provide a proper subject for individual moral responsibility. This contribution suggests that Conway’s account of vital power can resolve an apparent tension between ontological overlap and individual moral responsibility and, more broadly, that Conway has a relational metaphysics of moral subjecthood.KEYWORDS: Anne Conwaymoral responsiblitymultiplicitymetaphysicsparthoodpowers AcknowledgmentsThis paper greatly benefitted from the extensive feedback of two anonymous referees, Ruth Boeker, and Graham Clay. I had a helpful discussion of an earlier version of this paper at Carleton College and St. Olaf’s joint colloquium series. Finally, I would like to give a special thanks to Jason Decker, Dan Groll, Andrew Knoll, Anna Moltchanova, and Sue Sample for their feedback.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. References to Conway’s Principles are to Conway (Citation1996), The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, ed. and tr. Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, hereafter cited in the text as ‘CC’, followed by page, chapter, and section number.2. For further analysis of Conway on the multiplicity of creatures, see Jasper Reid (Citation2020).3. Conway imagines an interlocutor who objects that God is responsible for sin if ‘motion and being come from the same cause, God the creator, who nevertheless remains unmoved’ (CC 58; VIII.2). She replies that although the captain is not responsible for the existence of the wind, they are appropriately praised or blamed and punished according to how they use their power to direct the ship.4. Hutton (Citation2004) provides a thorough background on Conway’s religious, personal, and philosophical context.5. See Hutton (Citation1996) for an analysis of Conway’s account of universal salvation.6. That in turn raises interesting issues concerning Conway’s modal commitments. For the purposes of this discussion, their success is at least inevitable in the sense that all creatures will succeed in the limit.7. Thanks to Anna Moltchanova for discussion of this point.8. See Jessica Gordon-Roth (Citation2018) for an interpretation of Conway that has it that she vacillates between token existence monism and type monism for the created world. Emily Thomas (Citation2020) argues that the
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2250182
Roey Reichert
ABSTRACT The fifth chapter of Experience Embodied is devoted to Herder’s theory of cognition and the epistemic merits of the capacity for ‘sympathy’, or ‘empathy’ – what Herder calls Einfühlung, and which Waldow renders more accurately as ‘affective immersion’. I situate Waldow’s reading of Herder as a member of the epistemological tradition within the debate on Herder’s relationship to the Enlightenment. Waldow’s reading, I contend, is congruent with the view of Herder as an Enlightenment, rather than anti-Enlightenment, figure. I focus on what Waldow calls ‘the problem of the conceivability of difference’ (Waldow 2020, 185) and how she charts Herder’s proposed method of Einfühlung and the need for ‘affective immersion’ to address this problem. However, I also identify three potential problems, which Waldow does not address, that can arise when Einfühlung is taken too far: the first is that it may lead to relativism, and thus to incoherence; the second is reductionism, which can eliminate, rather than draw attention to, difference – thereby achieving the opposite goal; while the third is that relying solely on Einfühlung as a method can lead us into error, as it is speculative and lacks an external truth criterion.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2214761
Jennifer Corns
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2204696
James D. O’Shea, J. Mcdowell
In 2013 John McDowell, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, delivered the Agnes Cuming Lectures that are hosted annually by the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, on the topic: ‘Two Questions about Perception’ (23–24 April). The following lightly edited interview with McDowell (JM) by O’Shea (JOS) (https://youtu. be/fSXw2mJTF-Y) occurred after the first of his two lectures, which were entitled: ‘Can Cognitive Science Determine Epistemology?’ (https://youtu. be/m8y8673RmII), and ‘Are the Senses Silent?’ (https://youtu.be/ fBQHEGg5JSo). Each talk carried further some important debates about the fundamental nature of perceptual knowledge that McDowell has continued to have with, in the first case, Tyler Burge (cf. Burge 2003, 2005, 2011, 2022; McDowell 1982, 1994, 2008, 2010, 2011; Burge 2011), and in the second case with Charles Travis (McDowell 2009, 2013; McDowell 2018; Travis 2004, 2013, 2018; McDowell 2018 see also Gersel et al. 2018). In the first lecture McDowell argued against Burge that cognitive science, while doing significant work on the problems with which it is concerned, does not address in its terms some of the most important problems in epistemology concerning the nature of perceptual knowledge. In the second lecture McDowell responded to Travis’s influential 1994 paper, ‘The Silence of the Senses’ by arguing in light of insights from both Kant and Wilfrid Sellars that the senses are not ‘silent’ in the way that Travis contends, which concerns the nature and role of sensibility in our perceptual knowledge of given environmental realities. The interview contains discussion of the topics raised in both of the lectures. Of particular interest in the interview is how each of them relates to McDowell’s well-known embrace and development of Sellars’s famous critique of the ‘myth of the given’ (Sellars 1956), including some of the ways in which McDowell has found it necessary to
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2214763
Qiannan Li
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2214754
Giulio Di Basilio
Bernasconi, R. 2001. “Who Invented the Concept of Race? Kant’s Role in the Enlightenment Construction of Race.” In Race, edited by R. Bernasconi, 11–36. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Mason, M. 2003. “Contempt as a Moral Attitude.” Ethics 113 (2): 234–272. doi:10.1086/342860. Mills, C. W. 1997. The Racial Contract. NY: Cornell University Press. Shorter-Bourhanou, J. I. 2022. “Reinventing Kant?” Kantian Review 27 (4): 529–540. doi:10. 1017/S1369415422000346. Stockdale, K. 2021. Hope Under Oppression. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2186466
A. Bertinetto, P. Grüneberg
ABSTRACT According to Gilbert Ryle, improvisation is a basic feature of ordinary action. In this paper, we take this idea seriously. Action is improvisation, in that it is situated: It is shaped by attentive responses to environmental circumstances. This is a crucial aspect of agency. However, it is neglected by causal theories of action (Bratman; Mele) and only partially addressed by Thompson’s process-oriented theory. By resorting to Kant’s theory of judgment, we argue for understanding action performance in terms of improvisational shaping of action in situ. The focus on improvisation points to a situated kind of practical rationality entailing the reciprocal shaping of intention and action instead of the ordinary instrumental kind of rationality of action as unidirectionally determined by intention.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2023.2199029
Étienne Cardin-Trudeau
ABSTRACT Rousseau’s political project consists in ensuring that the citizens of the social contract, in uniting with each other, preserve their ability to self-legislate, or be autonomous. For this to work, however, members of the social contract would need to feel intrinsically linked to the political whole. This essay investigates what that feeling might be and how it can be grown. I argue that Rousseau develops a model of the energy or character of the being capable of autonomy, capable of experiencing themselves as part of the whole. That energy is a pathos of vigour, a strong sentiment and way of being that I develop from Rousseau’s educational precepts in Émile, which makes the citizen feel free and robust in dependence and boundedness. Autonomy, then, comes from the active exercise of oneself, physically and mentally, in an environment bounded by things, and this results in a sentiment of vigour, a vitality that produces confidence and poise, which then entices further activity.
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