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Fischer, Eugen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610
(2019)
Linguistic Legislation and Psycholinguistic Experiments:Redeveloping Waismann's Approach.
In:
Friedrich Waismann.
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 211-241.
ISBN 978-3-030-25007-2
Abstract
This paper presents a neglected philosophical approach, redevelops it on fresh empirical foundations, and seeks to bring out that it is of not merely historical interest. Building on ideas Ludwig Wittgenstein mooted in the early 1930s, Friedrich Waismann developed a distinctive metaphilosophy: Through case studies on particular philosophical problems, he identified a characteristic structure and genesis displayed by several philosophical problems and presented a distinctive dialogical method for dissolving problems of this kind. This method turns on exposing the need to endow philosophical questions or claims with more determinate meaning and meeting this need by proposing linguistic rules and explanations which the problems’ proponents are free to accept or reject. The approach is embedded in the view that unconscious thought decisively shapes the formulation of philosophical problems. This paper first presents the approach on the basis of Waismann’s texts and then redevelops it through a case study on the ‘problem of perception’ and within a post-Freudian conception of unconscious thought: We will draw on psycholinguistic findings about automatic inferences in language comprehension and production, to examine how unconscious cognition shapes the problem formulation. Findings provide fresh, empirical foundations for the approach which has advantages over more familiar critical projects in ordinary language philosophy, to which it is kindred in spirit.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ludwig wittgenstein,friedrich waismann,metaphilosophy,ordinary language philosophy,philosophical method,language comprehension,problem of perception |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2019 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 10:43 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71852 |
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