The Poetic of Reason: Introducing Rational Poetic Experimentalism

Stefán Snævarr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52380-7 (ISBN)

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This book introduces and explores Rational Poetic Experimentalism (RPE). According to RPE, it makes sense to regard reason as poetic. Regarding reason this way is the result of experimenting with philosophical ideas. Such experimentation might lead to philosophical truths which might seem very difficult to discover.

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?

Stefán Snævarr is Professor of Philosophy at the Norway Inland University, Lillehammer, Norway. His main professional interests lie broadly within the field of aesthetics. His last book in English was Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions. Their Interplay and Impact (Rodopi, 2010).

Preface

Part A

Rational Poetic Experimentalism

Section I

Introducing the rpe

Introduction to Section i, Part a

1 Experimental Philosophy and the Literary

Introducing the Literary

Experiments and Philosophy

Responses and Rejoinders

Conclusion

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

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

2 Fleshing Out the No-Gap Theory

The Indicators

The Similarities between Philosophy and Literature

Conclusion

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

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

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

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

1 Preliminary Notes on Reason

Reason, Truth, and Evaluation

Logic and Reason

Induction and Abduction

More about Deduction

Rejoinders and Replies

Conclusion

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

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

4 Relativism and Conceptual Schemes

Relativism and Incommensurability

Davidson’s Criticism of Incommensurabilism

Defending Schemism

Conclusion

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

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

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

2 The Poetic of Emotions

Emotions and Metaphors

Narratives and Emotions

Fictions and the Meeting Places of the Threesome

Conclusion

3 Deflated Disclosure

Heidegger’s World Disclosure

Introducing Deflated Disclosure

Literature and f-d-e-Disclosing

Disclosism and Rationality

Conclusion

4 Background and Literature

The Background

The Literary Factors, Artworks, and the Ineffable

Conclusion

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics ; 378
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	917 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-52380-4 / 9004523804
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52380-7 / 9789004523807
Zustand	Neuware