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Para velhas perguntas, novas e melhores respostas: da engenharia conceitual ao aprimoramento erotético
In this paper, I present a position that I call erotetic amelioration, according to which we must evaluate and, eventually, improve our answers to questions of the form “What is x?”. My focus will be on cases where x stands for a strongly social kind, such as marriage. Such a position is offered as an alternative to the idea—sometimes called conceptual engineering—according to which we should evaluate and, eventually, seek to improve our concepts. After introducing the idea of erotetic amelioration, I will show how it can be put into work to deal with what I call the topic preservation challenge, and what advantages it has in relation to a similar position available in the literature, namely, Cappelen’s (2018) Austerity Framework.Neste artigo, apresenta-se uma posição a que se chama de aprimoramento erotético, segundo a qual devemos avaliar e, eventualmente, aprimorar nossas respostas a perguntas da forma “O que é x?”. O foco será em casos em que x captura uma categoria fortemente social, como o casamento. Tal posição é oferecida enquanto alternativa à ideia — por vezes denominada engenharia conceitual — de acordo com a qual devemos avaliar e, eventualmente, buscar uma melhoria de nossos conceitos. Uma vez introduzida a ideia de aprimoramento erotético, será buscado mostrar como pode ser mobilizada para lidar com o que se chama de desafio da preservação de tópico, e que vantagens possui em relação a uma posição semelhante disponível na literatura, nomeadamente, o Quadro Austero, defendido por Cappelen (2018)
A Week In Fez, Morocco
Postcard from Jennifer Derke, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the American University Center of Provence in Marseilles, Franc
Nothing seeing in the dark, Nothing hearing in silence
Podemos ver na ausência de luz, e ouvir na ausência de som? Em seu livro Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows (2008), Roy Sorensen defende que sim, que podemos ver a escuridão na ausência de luz, e ouvir o silêncio na ausência de som. Neste artigo, defendo que na escuridão nada vemos, no silêncio nada ouvimos, e que experienciar a ausência de luz e som é uma questão afetiva, e não perceptual.Can we see in the absence of light, and hear in the absence of sound? In his book Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows (2008), Roy Sorensen defends a view according to which we can see darkness in the absence of light and hear silence in the absence of sound. In this paper, I defend the view that we see nothing in darkness, hear nothing in silence, and that experiencing the absence of light and sound is an affective, and not perceptual, matter
Physicalism and the nature of phenomenal concepts
In recent years, a number of authors have tried to respond to Frank Jackson’s so-called “Knowledge Argument” against physicalism by appealing to phenomenal concepts, that is, concepts under which fall the phenomenal aspect of our experiences, or, to put it in different terms, concepts under which fall the sensations attached to our experiences. However, there is no agreement in the literature regarding the nature of phenomenal concepts. For some, these concepts are recognitional in nature. Others take them as being demonstrative in nature. In this paper, I will argue that physicalists should not take phenomenal concepts as being either recognitional or demonstrative in nature, for if they do they will not be able to respond to Jackson’s Knowledge Argument