The politics of predication

Philosophical Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-219

  Margolis, Joseph ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (48)

1. Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 13
2. See, for instance, Bruno Latour, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 1987), especially Appendices 1 and 2
3. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. enlarged (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), p. ix
4. Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, p. 140. The first phrases appear at pp. 12, 142
5. The term comes from Michel Serres, Statues (Paris: François Bourin, 1987), cited by Latour
6. See, for instance, Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?" in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984)
7. See Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, pp. 111-114
8. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 126
9. Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), pp. 9-10
10. MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, p. 175
11. The underlying argument is given in Joseph Margolis, Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
12. See Wesley C. Salmon, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 18
13. For a sense of MacIntyre's treatment of moral incommensurabilities along these lines, see Joseph Margolis, Life without Principles: Reconciling Theory and Practice (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), Chs. 2 and 5
14. Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 101
15. Jerry A. Fodor, Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981), pp. 295-296; see the rest of Ch. 10
16. also, Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore, Holism: A Shopper's Guide (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
17. Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, p. 102
18. See Nelson Goodman, "Seven Strictures on Similarity," in Lawrence Foster and J. W. Swanson (eds), Experience and Theory (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970). The argument betrays the fact that Goodman must function as a "realist" though he professes to be a nominalist
19. The locus classicus for the discussion of definite descriptions is of course Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting," Mind, XIV (1905)
20. See Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Resolutions, Ch. 10
21. See, for instance, for Fodor's treatment of Wittgenstein, Jerry A. Fodor (with Charles Chihara), "Operationalism and Ordinary Language," in Representations
22. Fodor, Representations, p. 47
23. On the use of the term "Platonism," compare Stephen Schiffer, Remnants of Meaning (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987), pp. 234-235 (regarding the use of "Platonic Realist")
24. Compare Fodor, Representations, pp. 257-260
25. See Eleanor Rosch and C. B. Mervin, "Family Resemblances: Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories," Cognitive Psychology, VII (1975)
26. and Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of 'meaning'," Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
27. This is Fodor's summary of Putnam's argument in (largely in) "The Meaning of 'meaning'." See Representations, pp. 292-293
28. See Renford Bambrough, "Universals and Family Resemblances," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, LXI (1960-61)
29. Bambrough's is the best-known summary of Wittgenstein's view. The principal text appears in Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §§66-67
30. See Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §73
31. Bambrough, "Universals and Family Resemblances," p. 216
32. Wittgenstein defends a more radical view. See Ludwig Wittgenstein, "The Blue Book," The Blue and Brown Books (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958), pp. 1-19
33. See Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, trans. Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe, edit. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969), §§113-145, 236-263
34. See Jean-François Lyotard, The Différend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges van den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988)
35. See Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. Garrett Barden and John Cumming (New York: Seabury Press, 1975)
36. See Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, trans. Richard Nice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980)
37. See Michel Foucault, "Truth and Power," Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, edit. Colin Gordon, trans. Colin Gordon et al. (New York: Pantheon, 1980)
38. See J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997), Ch. 1
39. Further on the import of Mackie's query, see Joseph Margolis, Life without Principles, Ch. 2
40. Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1992), p. 3; compare pp. 164-165
41. See Benhabib, Situating the Self, pp. 24-25
42. See, for a sustained discussion of all these figures, Margolis, Life without Principles
43. Jürgen Habermas, "Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification," Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 65-66
44. Habermas, "Discourse Ethics," p. 89
45. See, further, Robert Alexy, "A Theory of Practical Discourse," trans., in Seyla Benhabib and Fred Dallmayr (eds.), The Communicative Ethics Controversy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990)
46. Slavoj Žižek, "Beyond Discourse-Analysis," in Ernesto Laclau, New Reflections on the Revolution of our Time (London: Verso, 1990), p. 259
47. Žižek, "Beyond Discourse-Analysis," p. 249
48. See Ernesto Laclau and Chantai Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985)