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Ontology as a Guide to Politics? Judith Butler on Interdependency, Vulnerability, and Nonviolence 本体论是政治的指南?朱迪思·巴特勒谈相互依赖、脆弱性和非暴力
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-03-31 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2624
J. Wearing
In recent work, Judith Butler has sought to develop a ‘new bodily ontology’ with a substantive normative upshot: recognition of our shared bodily condition, they argue, can support an ethic of nonviolence and a renewed commitment to egalitarian social conditions. However, the route from Butler’s ontological claims to their ethico-political commitments is not clear: how can the general ontological features of embodiment Butler identifies introduce constraints on behaviour or political arrangements? Ontology, one might think, is neutral on questions of politics. In this paper I reconstruct Butler’s response to this challenge, arguing that there is an interesting and plausible path from ontology to politics. I draw on Heidegger’s ontological/ontic distinction to elucidate the central concepts of Butler’s ontology: vulnerability, precariousness, and interdependency. I argue that one of Butler’s central attempts to derive an ethic of nonviolence from ontology is unpersuasive, resting on a conflation of the ontological and ontic senses of ‘interdependency’. Nonetheless, I contend that Butler is right that genuinely acknowledging our vulnerability is likely to make us more responsive to the claims of others, loosening the grip of ideals of invulnerability and sovereign independence. These ideals and the violence they encourage amount to a disavowal of our ontological condition, while commitment to nonviolence is a way of acknowledging
在最近的工作中,朱迪思·巴特勒(Judith Butler)试图发展一种具有实质性规范结果的“新身体本体论”:他们认为,认识到我们共有的身体状况,可以支持非暴力伦理和对平等社会条件的重新承诺。然而,从巴特勒的本体论主张到他们的伦理政治承诺的路线并不清楚:巴特勒所识别的体现的一般本体论特征如何能够引入对行为或政治安排的约束?有人可能会认为,本体论在政治问题上是中立的。在本文中,我重构了巴特勒对这一挑战的回应,认为从本体论到政治有一条有趣而可信的道路。我利用海德格尔的本体论/本体论的区别来阐明巴特勒本体论的核心概念:脆弱性、不稳定性和相互依赖性。我认为巴特勒从本体论中推导出非暴力伦理的核心尝试之一是没有说服力的,它建立在“相互依赖”的本体论和本体论意义的合并上。尽管如此,我认为巴特勒是对的,真诚地承认我们的脆弱可能会让我们对他人的要求做出更积极的回应,放松对坚不可摧和主权独立理想的束缚。这些理想和它们所鼓励的暴力等于否定我们的本体论条件,而承诺非暴力是承认它的一种方式。既然承认失败就是道德上的失败,我们就有责任以承认我们共有的本体论条件的方式行动——即使有人对巴特勒的本体论的细节提出异议,这一普遍结论也会引起人们的兴趣。
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引用次数: 0
The Many, the Few, and the Nature of Value “多”、“少”与价值的本质
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2260
Daniel Muñoz
John Taurek argues that, in a choice between saving the many or the few, the numbers should not count. Some object that this view clashes with the transitivity of ‘better than’; others insist the clash can be avoided. I defend a middle ground: Taurek cannot have transitivity, but that doesn’t doom his view, given a suitable conception of value. I then formalize and explore two conceptions: one context-sensitive, one multidimensional.
约翰•托里克认为,在拯救多数人还是拯救少数人之间做出选择时,数量不应该被考虑在内。有人反对说,这种观点与“better than”的及物性相冲突;其他人则坚持冲突是可以避免的。我坚持中间立场:金牛座不可能有及物性,但这并不能否定他的观点,只要有一个合适的价值概念。然后,我形式化并探索了两个概念:一个是上下文敏感的,一个是多维的。
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引用次数: 2
Trope Mental Causation: Still Not Qua Mental 修辞心理因果:仍然不是心理的
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2254
Wenjun Zhang
A popular solution to the causal exclusion problem in the non-reductive physicalist camp is the trope identity solution. But this solution is haunted by the “quausation problem” which charges that the trope only confers causal powers qua physical, not qua mental. Although proponents of the trope solution have responded to the problem by denying the existence of properties of tropes, I do not find their reply satisfactory. Rather, I believe they have missed the core presupposition behind the quausation problem. I will argue that the presupposition is the generalist notion of causation. Then, for the trope theorists to solve the quausation problem, they need to abandon the generalist notion and adopt the singularist notion of causation. However, making that move will lead them to a new quausation problem, rendering irreducible mental types causally irrelevant and mental causal explanations reducible. Either adopting a generalist notion or a singularist notion of causation, a quausation problem awaits the trope solution. Given this dilemma, my conclusion is that the trope identity solution cannot solve the exclusion problem in a non-reductive way. Moreover, the dilemma can be generalized, showing that token physicalism is a shaky position.
在非还原物理主义阵营中,对因果排斥问题的普遍解决方案是比喻同一性解决方案。但这个解决方案受到“限定性问题”的困扰,该问题指责这一比喻只赋予了物理上的因果力,而不是精神上的因果力。虽然比喻解决方案的支持者通过否认比喻属性的存在来回应这个问题,但我认为他们的回答并不令人满意。相反,我认为他们忽略了问题背后的核心前提。我认为前提是因果关系的通论概念。那么,对于修辞论者来说,要解决准次问题,他们需要放弃通论的概念,采用奇点的因果关系概念。然而,这样做会导致一个新的问号问题,使不可约的心理类型变得因果无关,心理因果解释变得可约。无论是采用通论的因果关系概念还是单一性的因果关系概念,都有一个限时问题等待着比喻式的解决方案。鉴于这种困境,我的结论是,比喻同一性解决方案不能以非约化的方式解决排他问题。此外,这种困境可以普遍化,表明符号物理主义是一个摇摇欲坠的立场。
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引用次数: 1
A Forward-Looking Theory of Content 前瞻性内容理论
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2238
Cameron Buckner
In this essay, I provide a forward-looking naturalized theory of mental content designed to accommodate predictive processing approaches to the mind, which are growing in popularity in philosophy and cognitive science. The view is introduced by relating it to one of the most popular backward-looking teleosemantic theories of mental content, Fred Dretske’s informational teleosemantics. It is argued that such backward-looking views (which locate the grounds of mental content in the agent’s evolutionary or learning history) face a persistent tension between ascribing determinate contents and allowing for the possibility of misrepresentation. A way to address this tension is proposed by grounding content attributions in the agent’s own ability to detect when it has represented the world incorrectly through the assessment of prediction errors—which in turn allows the organism to more successfully represent those contents in the future. This opens up space for misrepresentation, but that space is constrained by the forward-directed epistemic capacities that the agent uses to evaluate and shape its own representational strategies. The payoff of the theory is illustrated by showing how it can be applied to interpretive disagreements over content ascriptions amongst scientists in comparative psychology and ethology. This theory thus provides a framework in which to make content attributions to representations posited by an exciting new family of predictive approaches to cognition, and in so doing addresses persistent tensions with the previous generation of naturalized theories of content.
在这篇文章中,我提供了一种前瞻性的心理内容自然化理论,旨在适应在哲学和认知科学中越来越受欢迎的心理预测处理方法。通过将这一观点与弗雷德·德雷茨克的信息目的论联系起来,弗雷德·德雷茨克的信息目的论是最流行的关于心理意旨的回溯式目的论。有人认为,这种向后看的观点(将心理内容的基础定位在智能体的进化或学习历史中)在归因于确定的内容和允许误解的可能性之间面临着持续的紧张关系。一种解决这种紧张关系的方法是将内容归因建立在智能体自身的能力上,通过评估预测错误来检测它何时错误地表示了世界——这反过来又允许有机体在未来更成功地表示这些内容。这就为错误表征开辟了空间,但这种空间受到代理用来评估和塑造自己的表征策略的前向认知能力的限制。通过展示如何将该理论应用于比较心理学和动物行为学科学家之间关于内容归属的解释分歧,可以说明该理论的回报。因此,这一理论提供了一个框架,在这个框架中,我们可以将内容归因于由一系列令人兴奋的认知预测方法所提出的表征,这样就解决了与上一代自然化内容理论之间持续存在的紧张关系。
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引用次数: 5
Aesthetic Commitments and Aesthetic Obligations 审美承诺和审美义务
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2239
A. Cross
Resolving to finish reading a novel, staying true to your punk style, or dedicating your life to an artistic project: these are examples of aesthetic commitments. I develop an account of the nature of such commitments, and I argue that they are significant insofar as they help us manage the temporally extended nature of our aesthetic agency and our relationships with aesthetic objects. At the same time, focusing on aesthetic commitments can give us a better grasp on the nature of aesthetic normativity; this is because, in making aesthetic commitments, we are capable of giving aesthetic concerns the weight of obligation. I argue that appealing to aesthetic commitments allows us to account for the existence of aesthetic obligations as well as their grounding. I conclude by arguing that, although the aesthetic domain is a domain of play and freedom of choice, there is nevertheless an important place in it for both aesthetic commitments and the aesthetic obligations they generate.
决心读完一本小说,坚持你的朋克风格,或者把你的一生奉献给一个艺术项目:这些都是审美承诺的例子。我对这些行为的本质进行了解释,我认为它们之所以重要,是因为它们帮助我们处理审美能动性的时间延伸性以及我们与审美对象的关系。同时,关注审美承诺可以使我们更好地把握审美规范性的本质;这是因为,在做出美学承诺时,我们能够赋予美学关注义务的分量。我认为诉诸美学承诺使我们能够解释美学义务的存在以及它们的基础。我的结论是,尽管美学领域是一个游戏和自由选择的领域,但美学承诺和它们产生的美学义务在其中都有重要的地位。
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引用次数: 2
Literary Racial Impersonation 文学上的种族模仿
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2232
Joy Shim
Literary racial impersonation occurs when a narrative work fails to express the perspective of a minority ethnic or racial group. Interestingly, even when these works express moral themes congenial to promoting empathetic responses towards these groups, they can be met with public outrage if the group’s perspective is portrayed inaccurately. My goal in this paper is to vindicate the intuition that failure to express the perspective of a minority group well renders the work defective, both aesthetically and morally. I argue that available frameworks exploring the connections between aesthetic and moral realms of value are inadequate to analyzing this phenomenon and propose a novel connection between aesthetic and moral values. Specifically, I demonstrate that the primary defect of literary racial impersonation is aesthetic and contingently constitutes a moral defect in our current social context.
文学上的种族模仿发生在叙事作品未能表达少数民族或种族群体的观点时。有趣的是,即使这些作品表达了与促进对这些群体的同情反应相一致的道德主题,如果这些群体的观点被不准确地描绘出来,它们也会遭到公众的愤怒。我在本文中的目标是证明这样一种直觉,即未能很好地表达少数群体的观点会使作品在美学和道德上都有缺陷。我认为,现有的探索美学和道德价值领域之间联系的框架不足以分析这一现象,并提出了美学和道德价值之间的新联系。具体地说,我证明了文学种族模仿的主要缺陷是审美上的,并且在我们当前的社会背景下偶然地构成了一种道德缺陷。
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引用次数: 0
Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge 断言、隐含和迭代知识
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2236
Eliran Haziza
The present paper argues that there is a knowledge norm for conversational implicature: one may conversationally implicate p only if one knows p. Linguistic data about the cancellation behavior of implicatures and the ways they are challenged and criticized by speakers is presented to support the thesis. The knowledge norm for implicature is then used to present a new consideration in favor of the KK thesis. It is argued that if implicature and assertion have knowledge norms, then assertion requires not only knowledge but iterated knowledge: knowing that you know that you know that . . . you know. Such a condition on permissible assertion is argued to be plausible only if the KK thesis is true.
本文认为,会话含义存在一个知识规范:一个人只有在知道p的情况下才会在会话中暗示p。本文提供了关于暗示消除行为及其被说话者挑战和批评的方式的语言学数据来支持本文的论点。知识规范的含义,然后用来提出一个新的考虑有利于KK的论文。本文认为,如果蕴涵和断言具有知识规范,那么断言不仅需要知识,还需要迭代知识:知道你知道你知道那个…你知道的。只有当KK命题为真时,这个可允许断言的条件才被认为是似是而非的。
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引用次数: 3
In Defense of Clutter 为杂乱辩护
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2257
Brendan Balcerak Jackson, D. Didomenico, Kenji Lota
Gilbert Harman’s famous principle of Clutter Avoidance commands that “one should not clutter one’s mind with trivialities” (1986: 12). Harman appeals to this principle in the course of his well-known argument against logical closure, the view that one ought to believe all the logical consequences of one’s beliefs. Harman’s rationale for the principle is that one’s cognitive resources are limited, and ought to be used wisely; one ought not waste them by forming and maintaining beliefs that are in some sense trivial. Many epistemologists have been inclined to accept Harman’s principle, or something like it.1 This is significant, because the principle appears to have significant implications for our overall picture of epistemic normativity. Jane Friedman has recently argued that one potential implication is that there are no genuine purely evidential norms on belief revision—that “evidence alone doesn’t demand belief, and it can’t even, on its own, permit or justify belief” (2018: 576). Rather, genuine norms of belief revision must “combine considerations about one’s interests with more traditional epistemic sorts of considerations in issuing normative verdicts” (2018: 576).2 Even if we insist on keeping purely evidential norms, Friedman argues, the need to avoid clutter forces us to acknowledge that the verdicts of such norms can be overridden by consideration of our interests: even if one’s evidence requires (or permits) one to believe that p in a certain situation, it might still be the case that one is in fact not permitted to believe that p because doing so would violate the clutter avoidance principle. Either way, Friedman argues, accepting the principle leads to a picture of epistemic normativity that is highly “interest-driven,” a picture according to which our practical interests have a significant role to play.
吉尔伯特·哈曼(Gilbert Harman)著名的“避免混乱”原则要求“一个人不应该让琐碎的事情使自己的头脑混乱”(1986:12)。哈曼在他著名的反对逻辑闭合的论证中诉诸了这个原则,他认为一个人应该相信自己信仰的所有逻辑结果。哈曼对这一原则的基本原理是,一个人的认知资源是有限的,应该明智地使用;一个人不应该把时间浪费在形成和维持某种意义上微不足道的信念上。许多认识论家都倾向于接受哈曼的原理,或类似的原理这是很重要的,因为这个原则似乎对我们认知规范性的整体图景有重要的影响。简·弗里德曼(Jane Friedman)最近认为,一个潜在的含义是,在信念修正方面,不存在真正的纯证据规范——“证据本身并不要求信仰,它甚至不能单独允许或证明信仰”(2018:576)。相反,信仰修正的真正规范必须“在发布规范性裁决时,将对个人利益的考虑与更传统的认知类型的考虑结合起来”(2018:576)弗里德曼认为,即使我们坚持保持纯粹的证据规范,避免混乱的需要也会迫使我们承认,这些规范的结论可以被考虑到我们的利益所推翻:即使一个人的证据要求(或允许)一个人在某种情况下相信p,但实际上仍然可能不允许一个人相信p,因为这样做会违反混乱避免原则。弗里德曼认为,无论哪种方式,接受这一原则都会导致一幅高度“利益驱动”的认知规范性图景,在这幅图景中,我们的实际利益扮演着重要的角色。
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Bad Concepts, Bilateral Contents 坏概念,双边内容
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2247
Michael Deigan
I argue that one need not be an inferentialist in order to model inconsistent concepts, contrary to what some have thought. Representationalists can do so by adopting a form of bilateralism about contents. It remains unclear, however, why conceptual inconsistency would constitute a defect to be eliminated, rather than a vindication of dialetheism to be embraced. I suggest some answers to explore that involve accepting a descriptive form of dialetheism but denying its normative forms.
我认为,与某些人的想法相反,一个人不需要成为推理主义者,才能对不一致的概念进行建模。表征主义者可以通过对内容采取一种双边主义的形式来做到这一点。然而,尚不清楚的是,为什么概念上的不一致会构成一种需要消除的缺陷,而不是一种需要接受的对双重神论的辩护。我提出了一些需要探索的答案,包括接受描述形式的双重神论,但否认其规范形式。
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Really Boring Art 真正无聊的艺术
IF 0.6 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2231
Andreas Elpidorou, J. Gibson
There is little question as to whether there is good boring art, though its existence raises a number of questions for both the philosophy of art and the philosophy of emotions. How can boredom ever be a desideratum of art? How can our standing commitments concerning the nature of aesthetic experience and artistic value accommodate the existence of boring art? How can being bored constitute an appropriate mode of engagement with a work of art as a work of art? More broadly, how can there be works of art whose very success requires the experience of boredom? Our goal in this paper is threefold. After offering a brief survey of kinds of boring art, we: i) derive a set of questions that we argue constitutes the philosophical problem of boring art; ii) elaborate an empirically informed theory of boredom that furnishes the philosophical problem with a deeper sense of the affect at the heart of the phenomenon; and iii) conclude by offering and defending a solution to the problem that explains why and how artworks might wish to make the experience of boredom key to their aesthetic and artistic success.
毫无疑问,是否有好的无聊艺术,尽管它的存在给艺术哲学和情感哲学都提出了一些问题。无聊怎么会成为艺术的欲望呢?我们关于审美经验的本质和艺术价值的长期承诺如何能容纳无聊艺术的存在?无聊怎么能构成一种适当的与艺术作品互动的方式呢?更广泛地说,怎么会有艺术作品的成功需要经历无聊呢?本文的目标有三个方面。在简要介绍了无聊艺术的种类之后,我们:i)推导出一系列问题,我们认为这些问题构成了无聊艺术的哲学问题;Ii)阐述一种基于经验的无聊理论,为哲学问题提供对现象核心的更深层次的影响;iii)通过提供和辩护解决问题的方法来结束,解释艺术作品为什么以及如何希望使无聊的体验成为其美学和艺术成功的关键。
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