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Body, Mind, and Method - Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
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Body, Mind, and Method - Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 138
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Simple seeing. Plain talking. Language in use and persons in
action. These are among the themes of Virgil Aldrich's writings,
from the 1930's onward. Throughout these years, he has been an
explorer of conceptual geography: not as a foreign visitor studying
an alien land, but close up 'in the language in which we live,
move, and have our being'. This is his work. It is clear to those
who know him best that he also has fun at it. Yet, in the terms of
his oft-cited distinction, it is equally clear that he is to be
counted not among the funsters of philosophy, but among its most
committed workers. Funsters are those who attempt to do
epistemology, metaphysics, or analysis by appealing to examples
which are purely imaginary, totally fictional, as unrealistic as
you like, 'completely unheard of'. Such imaginative wilfullness
takes philosophers away from, not nearer to, 'the rough ground'
(Wittgenstein) where our concepts have their origin and working
place. In the funsters' imagined, 'barely possible' (but actually
impossible) world, simple seeing becomes transformed into the
sensing of sense-data; plain talk is rejected as imprecise, vague,
and misleading; and per sons in action show up as ensouled physical
objects in motion. Then the fly is in the bottle, buzzing out its
tedious tunes: the problem of perception of the external world; the
problem of meaning and what it is; the mind-body problem.
Image-mongering has got the best of image-management."
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