Wittgensteinowska metafilozofia Alice Ambrose i Morrisa Lazerowitza)

• Authors: Szubka Tadeusz

Title variants

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Wittgensteinian metaphilosophy of Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Inspired by some ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alice Ambrose maintained that philosophical statements do not serve to make empirically established or a priori justified statements about the world, but are hidden recommendations regarding the use of language, and, in particular, modifications of grammatical categories contained in it. This view was further developed and supplemented by her husband Morris Lazerowitz, who emphasized that the real source of philosophical modifications and terminological changes are the subconscious mental states of philosophers, especially their repressed desires, anxieties, and drives. The metaphilosophical views of Ambrose and Lazerowitz were very much criticized in the second half of the XX century for their dogmatic epistemological foundations. However, instead of returning to those apparently accurate criticisms, it is worth trying to construe these views as an early form of metaphilosophical expressivism, according to which philosophical statements are primarily, if not exclusively, an expression of non-cognitive mental attitudes of those who endorse them.

Keywords

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Alice Ambrose; Morris Lazerowitz; Ludwig Wittgenstein; expressivism; metaphilosophy; psychoanalysis; verbal recommendations

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-25

Contributors

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Szubka Tadeusz

• Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Zakład Filozofii Współczesnej, ul. Krakowska 71, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland