Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 19:32:27 +0300 (EET DST) From: J Laari <jlaari-AT-cc.jyu.fi> Subject: Peter on pomo phil Peter, here's few questions concerning your characterization of possible postmodern philosophical ideas: > 1) the epistemological doctrine of anti-foundationalism > (roughly, the view that knowledge has and needs no > justificatory 'foundations', neither Descartes' 'clear and > distinct ideas' nor the deliverances of sensory experience Do you mean that cartesian 'foundation' were 'clear and distinct ideas' and not 'cartesian cogito' (usual reference in several post-discourses)? > 2) the semantic doctrine of indeterminacy of meaning and > reference. (roughly, a cluster of views, to wit: that > there are no metaphysically robust and well-defined > entities like 'senses' (i.e. meanings), pace Frege; that > reference is a socially constucted, not a metaphysically > robust relation What this would mean in context of Fregean example of Bedeutung vs. Sinn / Meaning vs. Sense? That planet Venus as sense could be socially constructed? How would it be possible? [In this example: sense is 'planet Venus', meanings are 'morning star' and 'evening star'.] (Or am I doing translation error - Bedeutung=sense, Sinn=meaning? I have to check this..) > At the time and for decades afterwards, > analytic philosophy was dismissed by other disciplines > as totally useless mind-numbing lifeless shit. One remark: It isn't necessarily so simple. After WW2 there happened drastic changes in social sciences in favour of (then) logical-analytical philosophy (in Europe, I mean). Partly because of Niedergang of German culture, partly because of other reasons (social scientists looked for empirically more fruitful foundations, or somesuch). There was a trend towards 'late-Wittgensteinian and Quinean foundations' althought not necessarily under these banners. That trend was perhaps particularly strong in Nothern Europe. Yours, Jukka --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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