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Conference: [http://philevents.org/event/show/25482]
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:*[[Alfino - Fall 2016 - Work on Self and IF]]
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:*[[Alfino - Fall 2016 - Work on Philosophy of Food]]
  
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NYRB review of Garton Ash's new book on Free Speech. [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/09/29/timothy-garton-ash-free-speech-say-what-you-will/]
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==Notes for Seminar Discussions==
  
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==Initial Notes and Ideas for work on "self and intellectual freedom"==
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===SEP 27 - Hadot, Pinker, Dennett, Crawford===
  
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:*starting intuition (from Summer paper on Offensive Speech) that a deeper explanation for changes in attutudes toward intellectual freedom would need to take into account changes in the way we think about the self.
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:*Hadot - "ethics of discussion" -
  
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===General Notes ===
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:*Pinker - note intersection of discussion of classical style and obscure styles.  p. 29  Implications for style/method.
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::*Chapter 2:  up to 38, a discussion of classical style, then sections on "metadiscourse", signposting, hedging, spologetic language, excessive abstraction (nominalization and passives)
  
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:*enlightenment self -- characterized by rights, autonomy, freedom of expression, but also toleration.  Not defined by gender, race, orientation.   
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:*Crawford - Chapters 3, "Virtual Reality as a Moral Ideal"
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:*track critiques -- disembodied, disconnected from tradition, identity, religion moves to the private sphere, (find article to do this)
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::*child will vs. adult will.  situated, freedom of modern self depends on being insulated from contingency by layers of representation.
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:*need to understand how Enlightenment distinguished the private self from the public self.   
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::*Mouseke-doer -- "Oh Tootles!"  The Handy Dandy machine.  focused on adjustment, 72 q. to become an adult you need to be subject to the "heteronomy of things"
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:*what's new?  postmodern self, digital self, and therapeutic self (research both)
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::*Keep the world from challenging the self is something narcissists do.   
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::*Kant: does this in his moral theory -- 73: quote  -- context -- concern about the status of free will
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::*To be rational, for Kant, is to NOT be situated in the world.  Choice as expression of the unconditioned will.
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::*77: interesting connection to problem of the modern self -- kant's model of the self leads to a self that is fragile, can't tolerate contingency, seeks to be comfortable in a "me-world" of manufactured experience. (this might be the kind of self that demands insulation for it's views and identity.  freedom from conflict.
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::*thesis (he's heading toward): There is freedom and individuality in the world beyond your head, but only if you acquire the skills.
  
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:*Sources:
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:*Crawford - Chapter 4, "Attention and Design"
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::*Taylor -- sources of the self
 
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::*Kant's odd distinction between public and private roles
 
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::*Declaration of Universal Rights of Man
 
  
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:*Hypotheses:
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::*Mercedes "brake assist" - fetish of automaticity -- product of capitalism.  fake engine noise 85
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::*Could it be that we are witnessing the "re-embodiment" of the self following the Enlightenment abstraction of the political subject?
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::*"The World is its Own Best Model"  - embodied representations vs. symbolic representations.  importance of "cross modal binding" 83. 
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::*Could it be that we are changing the way we divide public and private spaces (partly because of the new possibilities of a digitally mediated self)?
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::*problem at the end - does a world of symbolic representations undermine real choice?  Is capitalism designing things to foster disengagement (autism)? (counter argument - aren't we developing skills with virtual reality? symbolic reality?
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::*Maybe the ideals of liberty of thought that Mill articulated were never realistic. I mean he was a pretty strange guy.
 
  
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===Critical issues===
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:*Dennett, Chapter 3
  
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::*Assuming there is a problem in our historical relationship to freedom of conscience.  Is there?  Evidence from recent years: right not to be offended, right to be forgotten, challenges to academic freedom -- deplatforming, trigger warnings, reporting of faculty for perceived aggression. 
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:*Section 9. Three species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould two-step.
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:*Sources of Enlightenment self (ripped from some Harvard professors' lecture series):
 
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::* Lockean theory of self -- first modern theory of personal identity
 
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::* Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 
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::* Mill's self in On Liberty
 
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::* Hume scepticism of self
 
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::* The London Journal -- Boswell's diary 1762
 
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::* Rousseau's "Confessions of a Solitary Walker" 
 
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::* Romanticism and the interiority of the self
 
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::* Franklin
 
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::* Adam Smith -- self as economic/moral agent
 
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::* Dangerous Liasons -- self as duplicitous
 
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:*Sources of Modern Self
 
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::*Cartesian Self
 
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::*Heliocentrism
 
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::*Christianity (context)
 
  
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:*Searches:
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:*"rathering" - really false dichotomy with a rhetorical flourish, "rather" - nice mix of informal fallacy and rhetoric.
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::*Philosophers Index: self and enlightenment, enlightenmnet and lib of thought or IF, digital self
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:*"piling on" - example p. 50.  exaggerating the alternative that he wants to dismiss (false dichotomy mixed with straw man"
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:*"two step" - creating a straw man version of an opponents argument and then treating the author's actual position as a grudging acceptance that the author really sees the problem with the straw man version.
  
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===Digital Self===
 
  
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::*uploading of self -- transhumanism
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::*social media -- updatin gstatus, managing a public/private self. 
 
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::*old model:  public vs. private 
 
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::*new model: pulbic, public-private, private
 
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Latest revision as of 23:45, 27 September 2016

Notes for Seminar Discussions

SEP 27 - Hadot, Pinker, Dennett, Crawford

  • Hadot - "ethics of discussion" -
  • Pinker - note intersection of discussion of classical style and obscure styles. p. 29 Implications for style/method.
  • Chapter 2: up to 38, a discussion of classical style, then sections on "metadiscourse", signposting, hedging, spologetic language, excessive abstraction (nominalization and passives)
  • Crawford - Chapters 3, "Virtual Reality as a Moral Ideal"
  • child will vs. adult will. situated, freedom of modern self depends on being insulated from contingency by layers of representation.
  • Mouseke-doer -- "Oh Tootles!" The Handy Dandy machine. focused on adjustment, 72 q. to become an adult you need to be subject to the "heteronomy of things"
  • Keep the world from challenging the self is something narcissists do.
  • Kant: does this in his moral theory -- 73: quote -- context -- concern about the status of free will
  • To be rational, for Kant, is to NOT be situated in the world. Choice as expression of the unconditioned will.
  • 77: interesting connection to problem of the modern self -- kant's model of the self leads to a self that is fragile, can't tolerate contingency, seeks to be comfortable in a "me-world" of manufactured experience. (this might be the kind of self that demands insulation for it's views and identity. freedom from conflict.
  • thesis (he's heading toward): There is freedom and individuality in the world beyond your head, but only if you acquire the skills.
  • Crawford - Chapter 4, "Attention and Design"
  • Mercedes "brake assist" - fetish of automaticity -- product of capitalism. fake engine noise 85
  • "The World is its Own Best Model" - embodied representations vs. symbolic representations. importance of "cross modal binding" 83.
  • problem at the end - does a world of symbolic representations undermine real choice? Is capitalism designing things to foster disengagement (autism)? (counter argument - aren't we developing skills with virtual reality? symbolic reality?
  • Dennett, Chapter 3
  • Section 9. Three species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould two-step.
  • "rathering" - really false dichotomy with a rhetorical flourish, "rather" - nice mix of informal fallacy and rhetoric.
  • "piling on" - example p. 50. exaggerating the alternative that he wants to dismiss (false dichotomy mixed with straw man"
  • "two step" - creating a straw man version of an opponents argument and then treating the author's actual position as a grudging acceptance that the author really sees the problem with the straw man version.


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