#linguisticturn — Public Fediverse posts

From Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-1960:

The big claims were about the imminence of a final dissolution: ancient knots would be cut, the old metaphysical doctrines hunted to extinction. Once the old detritus was cleared, then the revelation, ‘of a whole world of infinite subtlety and diversity with its own fine and complex structure, a world which had always lain about us to be observed as soon as we ceased straining our eyes towards imaginary grandeurs and simplicities’*. That world would reveal itself once we ceased straining our eyes and tried instead to listen, not least to ourselves.

Remind you of anyone? Now it’s been a long while since I was immersed in Rorty but I don’t recall this ever being part of his intellectual narrative, whereas the ethos of his ironism I now suspect resembles post-war Oxford philosophy much more than, as often alleged, postmodernism. To what extent was this an intellectual juncture reached through multiple pathways or a common ethos which coalesced?

*From Peter Strawon’s post-linguistic thaw

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/07/07/the-unacknowledged-debt-of-richard-rorty-to-the-ethos-of-post-war-oxford-philosophy/

#analyticPhilosophy #irony #language #linguisticTurn #richardRorty

Richard David Precht befasst sich im vierten Band seiner Geschichte der Philosophie mit der Moderne. Das Werk hat seine Vorzüge, liefert aber kaum neue Erkenntnisse. Eine Rezension

Richard David Precht widmet sich einer der komplexesten Epochen der Geistesgeschichte. Sein Buch wird der Moderne nur bedingt gerecht. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Mache die Welt von Richard David Precht)#Moderne #Philosophie #Precht #Geschichte #Sprachphilosophie #Wittgenstein #Strömung #Paradigma #linguisticturn #Husserl #Heidegger #Whitehead #Bloch #Benjamin #Hartmann #Soziologie #Freud #Kultur #PsychologieHirnforschung
»Mache die Welt«: Nächster Halt: Moderne

Es sind Modelle von Texten, über die sich Menschen die Welt konstruieren. Deshalb nennt man LLMs „Statistical Parrots“, weil sie Sprache nachahmen können, ohne irgendwelche Inhalte zu verstehen.
https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/06/wie-chatgpt-funktioniert.html #linguisticturn

[Lecture du moment] "Une #histoire inquiète : les historiens et le tournant linguistique" de Sabina Loriga et Jacques Revel chez Gallimard.

#historiographie #linguisticturn #tournantlinguistique #postmodernisme #epistemologie