[MD] Doug Renselle & Language

[Matt Kundert]

> [Krimel]
> Finally got around to looking that up on Amazon. I may buy it, but at 700+
> pages it will be a while before I get around to reading it... I have heard
> Robert Solomon expound on the intelligence of emotions. Howard Gardner
> includes a couple of affective categories among his multiple intelligence
> and Daniel Goleman has seized on two of them in his writing about emotional
> intelligence.

I consider Gardner huge.  Solomon is what I would call a very decent thinker: he's not first-rate (like Nussbaum or Foucault), but he's had a steady stream of very intelligent writing, on a great diversity of topics, and was at the forefront of keeping alive Continental philosophy at a time when American philosophers weren't taking it seriously.  He was also that bald philosopher guy at the beginning of the Linklater movie, Waking Life.

> My early take on narrative is that it is a strategy for imposing sequence on
> our random access memory. 

I like that, but I'd make sure to always go further in describing the importance of sequence.  The order narrative gives to the random collection of junk in our mind (in contradistinction to the order concepts give to the same collection) is requisite for the notion of identity in the face of change.  Without narrative, Neurath's Boat considerations give a philosopher a headache.

Matt