Controversies and Subjectivity

by Barrotta, Pierluigi; Dascal, Marcelo

• ISBN13: 9781588116154
• ISBN10: 1588116158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(30)
Part I. Discussing with oneself
CHAPTER 1 Debating with myself and debating with others	31	(44)
Marcelo Dascal
CHAPTER 2 Being in accordance with oneself: Moral self-controversy in Plato and Aristotle	75	(16)
Peter J. Schulz
CHAPTER 3 Conversion and controversy	91	(24)
Massimo Leone
CHAPTER 4 Controversies and the logic of scientific discovery	115	(12)
Ademar Ferreira
CHAPTER 5 Controversies and dialogic intersubjectivity	127	(30)
Frédéric Cossutta
CHAPTER 6 Disagreement, self-agreement, and self-deception	157	(16)
Shai Frogel
Part II. The first person
CHAPTER 7 Intersubjectivity in controversy: A story from the Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi	173	(12)
Han-liang Chang
CHAPTER 8 Subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of controversy-based thought	185	(16)
Adelino Cattani
CHAPTER 9 Temporality, reification and subjectivity: Carneades and the foundations of the world of subjectivity	201	(34)
Mihály Szivós
CHAPTER 10 First person singular in 17th century controversies	235	(16)
Gerd Fritz
CHAPTER 11 Subjective justifications: Introspective arguments in empiricism	251	(12)
Daniel Mishori
CHAPTER 12 Early Modern controversies and theories of controversy: The rules of the game and the role of the persons	263	(20)
Thomas Gloning
CHAPTER 13 Externalism, internalism, and self-knowledge	283	(20)
Yaron Senderowicz
Part III. The politics of subjectivity
CHAPTER 14 Liberals vs. communitarians on the self	303	(22)
Pierluigi Barrotta
CHAPTER 15 Ethical implications of de-dichotomization of identities in conflict	325	(12)
Omar Barghouti
CHAPTER 16 The role of subjectivity in public controversy	337	(16)
Alan G. Gross
CHAPTER 17 The Sokal affair: The role of subjectivity in shaping the controversy	353	(18)
León Olivé
CHAPTER 18 Archaic subjectivity and/as controversy in psychoanalytic thinking	371	(24)
Shirley Sharon-Zisser
The contributors to this volume	395	(6)
Name index	401	(4)
Subject index	405