EXPRESSION, SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND AUTHORITY. WITTGENSTEIN AND SUBJECTIVITY

• Authors: Varga Somogy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author will undertake the attempt to outline Wittgenstein's account of subjectivity by focusing on the central notion of expression, emerging from the rejection of the false alternative between Cartesianism and Behaviourism. Although allowing us to rethink the relationships between inner and outer and self and other, the notion of expression does not seem to provide a plausible explanation of first-person authority. His main point will be that by differentiating the term knowledge (utilizing Polanyi's and Shoemaker's accounts), we can expand Wittgenstein's model in a way helps us understand self-knowledge and first person

Keywords

EN

BEHAVIOURISM; CARTESIANISM; KNOWLEDGE; WITTGENSTEIN L.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 830-838
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Varga Somogy

• S. Varga, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 10, DK-2300 Copenhagen S., Denmark

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA053516