Denis J. Hilton
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198524021
- eISBN:
- 9780191689093
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198524021.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter considers the causal explanation as a conversational practice, and draws on the account of verbal communication in terms of a ‘co-operative principle’ and of ‘maxims of conversation’. It ...
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This chapter considers the causal explanation as a conversational practice, and draws on the account of verbal communication in terms of a ‘co-operative principle’ and of ‘maxims of conversation’. It also presents a conversational model of the causal explanation which highlights the interpersonal dimension of explaining.Less
This chapter considers the causal explanation as a conversational practice, and draws on the account of verbal communication in terms of a ‘co-operative principle’ and of ‘maxims of conversation’. It also presents a conversational model of the causal explanation which highlights the interpersonal dimension of explaining.
Timothy Chappell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748628117
- eISBN:
- 9780748652488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748628117.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Plato scholarship often tends to lead us in the direction of a very general choice about the nature of philosophical inquiry. The choice – which can emerge, for example, from thinking about the ...
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Plato scholarship often tends to lead us in the direction of a very general choice about the nature of philosophical inquiry. The choice – which can emerge, for example, from thinking about the contrasts between the Republic and the Euthydemus – is one between two very different conceptions of what should be the product of the best philosophical activity: a choice between conversion and conversation. This chapter argues that the gap between the conversional and conversational models of philosophy is deep, unbridgeable and historically perennial. The conversational and the conversional models of philosophy both have their places; but in Plato's thought, it is the conversional model that goes deeper. Plato recognises and makes room for both models. Moreover, he sees the two models as correctives to each other.Less
Plato scholarship often tends to lead us in the direction of a very general choice about the nature of philosophical inquiry. The choice – which can emerge, for example, from thinking about the contrasts between the Republic and the Euthydemus – is one between two very different conceptions of what should be the product of the best philosophical activity: a choice between conversion and conversation. This chapter argues that the gap between the conversional and conversational models of philosophy is deep, unbridgeable and historically perennial. The conversational and the conversional models of philosophy both have their places; but in Plato's thought, it is the conversional model that goes deeper. Plato recognises and makes room for both models. Moreover, he sees the two models as correctives to each other.
FREDERICK SCHAUER
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198258315
- eISBN:
- 9780191681844
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198258315.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter examines the distinction between conservational and entrenchment models of generalization in relation to rules and decision making. The result indicates that under- and over-inclusive ...
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This chapter examines the distinction between conservational and entrenchment models of generalization in relation to rules and decision making. The result indicates that under- and over-inclusive generalizations under the conversational model are applicable to most cases, but they are not as flexible under the entrenchment model. The findings also indicate that rule-based decision making can consequently be considered as a form of decision making where entrenched generalizations provide reasons for decision qua generalizations.Less
This chapter examines the distinction between conservational and entrenchment models of generalization in relation to rules and decision making. The result indicates that under- and over-inclusive generalizations under the conversational model are applicable to most cases, but they are not as flexible under the entrenchment model. The findings also indicate that rule-based decision making can consequently be considered as a form of decision making where entrenched generalizations provide reasons for decision qua generalizations.
G. R. F. Ferrari
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198798422
- eISBN:
- 9780191840487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198798422.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics
The chapter argues against a ‘conversational’ model of the relation between storyteller and audience, on the grounds that it puts the storyteller at too little distance from the audience. Although ...
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The chapter argues against a ‘conversational’ model of the relation between storyteller and audience, on the grounds that it puts the storyteller at too little distance from the audience. Although more overt than intimation at the half-on position (since the transmission is required to come across by recognition of the intention of the transmitting party), the storyteller’s intimation still lacks the complete overtness of full-on communication (since that recognition is only partial); hence its ‘three-quarters-on’ position. Contrast the full covertness of the quarter-on position, whose underlying form is: I want you to know (something), but I also want you not to know that I want you to know (that thing). Lyric poetry, which comes alive for us by masking its own artificiality, belongs here. A derivation is then proposed that makes mimicry fundamental to storytelling’s manner of intimation, rendering theoretical appeal to make-believe, imagination, or the authorial ‘persona’ unnecessary.Less
The chapter argues against a ‘conversational’ model of the relation between storyteller and audience, on the grounds that it puts the storyteller at too little distance from the audience. Although more overt than intimation at the half-on position (since the transmission is required to come across by recognition of the intention of the transmitting party), the storyteller’s intimation still lacks the complete overtness of full-on communication (since that recognition is only partial); hence its ‘three-quarters-on’ position. Contrast the full covertness of the quarter-on position, whose underlying form is: I want you to know (something), but I also want you not to know that I want you to know (that thing). Lyric poetry, which comes alive for us by masking its own artificiality, belongs here. A derivation is then proposed that makes mimicry fundamental to storytelling’s manner of intimation, rendering theoretical appeal to make-believe, imagination, or the authorial ‘persona’ unnecessary.
