Joseph Mendola
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199534999
- eISBN:
- 9780191715969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534999.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics/Epistemology
The dominant roots of externalism are the Twin Earth and Elm-Beech cases of Hilary Putnam, the Arthritis case of Tyler Burge, and the Feynman-Gell-Mann, Gödel-Schmidt, and Aristotle cases of Saul ...
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The dominant roots of externalism are the Twin Earth and Elm-Beech cases of Hilary Putnam, the Arthritis case of Tyler Burge, and the Feynman-Gell-Mann, Gödel-Schmidt, and Aristotle cases of Saul Kripke. This chapter sketches a general internalist response to these cases, deploying a certain sort of rigidification of description clusters. It isolates the three central intuitive difficulties of such a view: the belief-ascription objection, the multiple-contents objection, and the subject-matter objection.Less
The dominant roots of externalism are the Twin Earth and Elm-Beech cases of Hilary Putnam, the Arthritis case of Tyler Burge, and the Feynman-Gell-Mann, Gödel-Schmidt, and Aristotle cases of Saul Kripke. This chapter sketches a general internalist response to these cases, deploying a certain sort of rigidification of description clusters. It isolates the three central intuitive difficulties of such a view: the belief-ascription objection, the multiple-contents objection, and the subject-matter objection.
Mark R. Freedland and Nicola Kountouris
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199551750
- eISBN:
- 9780191731013
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199551750.003.0012
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law
This concluding chapter provides an overview of the main themes covered by the book and restates some of its key analytical findings. It also investigates the notion of the mutualisation of risks to ...
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This concluding chapter provides an overview of the main themes covered by the book and restates some of its key analytical findings. It also investigates the notion of the mutualisation of risks to workers and its antithesis, de-mutualisation. The two concepts are proposed as a new analytical construct which is susceptible to replacing other vaguer notions associated with labour law reform, such as the notions of de-regulation and re-regulation or flexibilisation and rigidification.Less
This concluding chapter provides an overview of the main themes covered by the book and restates some of its key analytical findings. It also investigates the notion of the mutualisation of risks to workers and its antithesis, de-mutualisation. The two concepts are proposed as a new analytical construct which is susceptible to replacing other vaguer notions associated with labour law reform, such as the notions of de-regulation and re-regulation or flexibilisation and rigidification.
Rahel Jaeggi
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231151986
- eISBN:
- 9780231537599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231151986.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter explores one aspect of self-alienation: the phenomenon of one's own actions taking on an independent existence and the resultant feeling of powerlessness. It argues that, when our life ...
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This chapter explores one aspect of self-alienation: the phenomenon of one's own actions taking on an independent existence and the resultant feeling of powerlessness. It argues that, when our life falls into a dynamic of its own, we are just as alienated from ourselves as when our own actions ossify into structures over which we no longer have command. In these cases we can no longer understand ourselves as authors of our own actions. The chapter begins by considering a situation that illustrates the feeling of powerlessness before expounding on the specific problem of this form of self-alienation by distinguishing it from other possible interpretations. It then interprets the phenomenon as a specific form of not being present in our own actions, with particular emphasis on the phenomenon of rigidification that ultimately leads to what might be called the masking of practical questions. It also discusses objections that can be brought against this interpretation and concludes by proposing a conception of self-alienation as a form of loss of control that does not, however, depend on an unrealistic ideal of self-mastery.Less
This chapter explores one aspect of self-alienation: the phenomenon of one's own actions taking on an independent existence and the resultant feeling of powerlessness. It argues that, when our life falls into a dynamic of its own, we are just as alienated from ourselves as when our own actions ossify into structures over which we no longer have command. In these cases we can no longer understand ourselves as authors of our own actions. The chapter begins by considering a situation that illustrates the feeling of powerlessness before expounding on the specific problem of this form of self-alienation by distinguishing it from other possible interpretations. It then interprets the phenomenon as a specific form of not being present in our own actions, with particular emphasis on the phenomenon of rigidification that ultimately leads to what might be called the masking of practical questions. It also discusses objections that can be brought against this interpretation and concludes by proposing a conception of self-alienation as a form of loss of control that does not, however, depend on an unrealistic ideal of self-mastery.
