[MD] continental and analytic philosophy

[david buchanan]

Matt said to Gav:
...In fact, I even avoid putting the point like Sellars did these days: "all awareness is a linguistic affair."  Because that slogan confuses retro-pragmatists who don't see it as making the same tactical move in an adjacent philosophical game as the slogan "experience is reality."  But really, I think, maya-lovers, Pirsig, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Sellars, and James are all saying pretty much the same thing on this score.


dmb says:

That's not true. To gloss over the difference between language and experience is a bit ham-handed. Take the title of Colin Koopman's paper in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy; "Language is a Form of Experience: Reconciling Classical Pragmatism and Neopragmatism". Recognizing the tension between these two, Koopman takes on the task of trying to create a third kind of pragmatism that does justice to both "experience" and "language", and to both James and Rorty. There is also Cheryl Misak's "Pragmatism on Solidarity, Bullshit and other Deformities of Truth". Similarly, she examines the seemingly irreconcilable difference between analytic truth theories and the pragmatic theory of truth with an eye toward closing that gap. (Although she seems to conflate James and Rorty.) There are several paper that defend James against Rorty's linguisticized pragmatism and others that grapple with the linguistic turn and what it means for his empiricism. Given the heated conversations that are going on in the journals about this difference between experience and language, I really don't see how your claim could be true.


 		 	   		  
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