This book makes the attempt to wed reason and the poetic. The tool for this attempt is Rational Poetic Experimentalism (RPE), which is introduced and explored in this book. According to RPE, it makes sense to look for poetic elements in human reality (including reason), outside of the realm of imaginative literature. Provocatively, RPE contends that philosophy's search for truth has not been a great success so far. So, why not experiment with philosophical concepts and look for thought-provoking ideas by employing the principles of RPE, instead of fruitlessly searching for truths using conventional methods?
Author(s): Stefán Snævarr
Series: Value Inquiry Book, 378
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 448
City: Leiden
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Part A Rational Poetic Experimentalism
Section i Introducing the rpe
Introduction to Section i, Part A
Chapter 1 Experimental Philosophy and the Literary
Introducing the Literary
Experiments and Philosophy
Responses and Rejoinders
Conclusion
Chapter 2 rpe and Its Methodology
Nozick’s Pluralist and Aesthetic View of Philosophy
The Proliferation of Possibilities and the Destab
Quasi-induction and Inference to the Least Bad Explanation
Objections and Responses
Conclusion
Conclusion and Summary of Section i, Part A
Section ii Philosophy and Literature: The No-Gap Theory
Introduction to Section ii, Part A
Chapter 1 Discussing Definitions: Preparing the Ground for the No-Gap Theory
The Concept of Philosophy
The Concepts of the Literary and Imaginative Literature
The Institutional Theory
Amoebaean Concepts
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Fleshing out the No-Gap Theory
The Indicators
The Similarities between Philosophy and Literature
Conclusion
Chapter 3 The No-Gap Theory and the Problem of Progress
Cognitive Progress
Williamson on Progress in Philosophy
Other Thinkers on Progress
Progress and the Proliferation of Possibilities
Rejoinders and Responses
Conclusion
Conclusion and Summary of Section ii, Part A
Section iii Destabing and the Literary Factors
Introduction to Section iii, Part A
Chapter 1 The Might of Metaphors: On Metaphorism
Introduction to Metaphors and Max Black’s Theories
The Tropical Side of Language
Goodman on Metaphors
Metaphorism: Generative Metaphorics
Ricœur: Live Metaphors and Split Reference
Ricœur: Emotions, Creativity, and Imagination
Ricœur: The Cognitive Function of Metaphors
The Alethetic Theory of Metaphoric Understanding
Metaphors only Shadows of Literal Meaning?
Conclusion
Chapter 2 In the Beginning Was the Story: On Narrativism
Introducing Narratives and Stories
The Narrativist Argument: Carr
The Narrative Realist Argument: Dray and Schapp
Blending Theory and Narrativism
Mink and Narration as Cognition
Ricœur and the Rule of Narratives
The rpe and Narrativism
Lamarque’s Criticism of Narrativism
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Is Reality a Fiction?: On Fictionalism
Introducing Fictionalism (and Its Forefathers)
Walton and Make-Believe
Different Kinds of Fictionalism
Make-Believe and Mathematics
Fictionalism and the rpe
A Note on Imagination and Creativity
Critical Comments
Conclusion
Conclusion and Summary of Section iii, Part A
Part B The Poetic of Reason
Section i Introducing the Poetic of Reason
Introduction to Section i, Part B
Chapter 1 Preliminary Notes on Reason
Reason, Truth, and Evaluation
Logic and Reason
Induction and Abduction
More about Deduction
Rejoinders and Replies
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Linguistic Rationalism and the Nobel Art of Destabing
Preparatory Notes on Some Analytical Schools
Habermas, Apel, Reason, and Language
Is Reason Really Rational?
First Destabing: Language
Second Destabing: Linguistic Rationalism
Third Destabing: Practical Reason
Rejoinders and Responses
Conclusion
Chapter 3 The Poetic of Models
Metaphors and Models
A Note on Metaphors, Causal Reference, and Generalizations
Critics of Models and Metaphors
Models as Fictions
Models and Narratives: The Poetic of Science
Responses to Possible Objections
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Relativism and Conceptual Schemes
Relativism and Incommensurability
Davidson’s Criticism of Incommensurabilism
Defending Schemism
Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Reasons of Relativism, the Relativity of Reason
Goodman and the Plurality of Worlds
Margolis and Relativism
Rorty and Relativism
Lingualism, Science, Reality, Skepticism
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Rhetoric, Science, and Literature
The Rhetoric of Science (Destabing Science)
Novels as Models, Multivalentism, and Literature
Conclusion
Conclusion and Summary of Section i, Part B
Section ii The Poetic of Reason (ii): Feelings, Disclosure, Background
Introduction to Section ii, Part B
Chapter 1 Feelings
Emotions and Feelings: Cognitive Theories
Goldie on Emotions, the Body, and Subjectivity
Taylor’s Hermeneutic Cognitivism
Feeling, Cognition, Art, Science, Values
Intuition and Imagination
Conclusion
Chapter 2 The Poetic of Emotions
Emotions and Metaphors
Narratives and Emotions
Fictions and the Meeting Places of the Threesome
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Deflated Disclosure
Heidegger’s World Disclosure
Introducing Deflated Disclosure
Literature and f-d-e-Disclosing
Disclosism and Rationality
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Background and Literature
The Background
The Literary Factors, Artworks, and the Ineffable
Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Amoebae of Reason: Concluding Comments on Rationality
Reason and the Poetic
Rationality Again
The Crossword Puzzle of Reason
Conclusion
Conclusion and Summary of Section ii, Part B
Concluding the Book
Concluding the Experiments, Concluding the Book
Conclusion of the Conclusion
A Concluding Personal Note
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
