you can't go wrong with Locke. Stay away from germans. language is just a tool, along with any body manipulation, to express thoughts. it doesn't shape us. We shape these communication tools. it is not a mystery. It just shows again the hostility toward human intelligence. Thinking comes first and then expression. We are not a product of our body. We have a soul first.
Since we're tossing out book recommendations: I don't know if it's been mentioned here before, but I just started reading Michael Hanby's No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology, and so far it's really, really good.
From what I've read, it could be taken as a sort of unintended preemptive strike against Carroll's book. :)
I'm glad to see Taylor is writing more on his theory of language, which has always been one of the more interesting parts of his work. However, I'm not exactly clear what this book is adding to his earlier writings. *Human Agency and Language* went some way into developing at least the rudiments of his expressivist viewpoint, complete with allusion to the 'triple-H' theory of meaning, and that was later developed further in his writings on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty (some of which have been collected in *Philosophical Arguments*).
The call to aim towards an Aristotelian story about humans as rational animals is new, as far as I know, but much of the rest reads as if it is little development of the central ideas from those earlier writings.
Oh the terrible blood soaked iron! Isnt the National Review one of the leading edge vectors of Orwellian new-speak, double-speak, and the world wide "culture" of death that now dominates the entire planet. And as such completely dis-heartening via its benighted influence.
you can't go wrong with Locke. Stay away from germans. language is just a tool, along with any body manipulation, to express thoughts. it doesn't shape us. We shape these communication tools. it is not a mystery. It just shows again the hostility toward human intelligence. Thinking comes first and then expression. We are not a product of our body. We have a soul first.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you write in publications that are behind pay walls!?
ReplyDeleteGee, George, do you want everything for free? And do you do everything for free?
ReplyDeleteRobert Beyers: "you can't go wrong with Locke."
ReplyDeleteI'd think rather that one can't go right with Locke!
Decent reviews in The Times Higher Education, and The Guardian. Free!
ReplyDeleteFeser,do you plan on reading, and possibly reviewing, Sean Carroll's new book The Big Picture?
ReplyDeleteI second the last question.
ReplyDeleteI third that question!
ReplyDeleteI fourth that question!!
ReplyDeleteReading, yes, reviewing, we'll see.
ReplyDeleteBecause the 'questions' are also a request, let me fifth it.
ReplyDeleteSince we're tossing out book recommendations: I don't know if it's been mentioned here before, but I just started reading Michael Hanby's No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology, and so far it's really, really good.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read, it could be taken as a sort of unintended preemptive strike against Carroll's book. :)
I'm glad to see Taylor is writing more on his theory of language, which has always been one of the more interesting parts of his work. However, I'm not exactly clear what this book is adding to his earlier writings. *Human Agency and Language* went some way into developing at least the rudiments of his expressivist viewpoint, complete with allusion to the 'triple-H' theory of meaning, and that was later developed further in his writings on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty (some of which have been collected in *Philosophical Arguments*).
ReplyDeleteThe call to aim towards an Aristotelian story about humans as rational animals is new, as far as I know, but much of the rest reads as if it is little development of the central ideas from those earlier writings.
Oh the terrible blood soaked iron!
ReplyDeleteIsnt the National Review one of the leading edge vectors of Orwellian new-speak, double-speak, and the world wide "culture" of death that now dominates the entire planet.
And as such completely dis-heartening via its benighted influence.