Sassing John Searle over wine and cheese
Last night skipped out of work early to go see John Searle lecture at UChicago. I've been cranky ever since.
Where does Searle get off titling a lecture 'Language and Social Ontology' which has absolutely nothing to do with language? In which, within the first five minutes, he explicitly refuses to admit any considerations from formal ( Read more... )
Where does Searle get off titling a lecture 'Language and Social Ontology' which has absolutely nothing to do with language? In which, within the first five minutes, he explicitly refuses to admit any considerations from formal ( Read more... )
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I too love to study individuals in context. In an interdisciplinary fashion.
Did he give any sense to the content of the "counting as" part of his function? What is it for something to count as something else? Also, what is the nature of the bare something that goes in the "X" part of that function? It seems incredibly problematic to think that there is some pre-counting-as-Y, pre-contextualized X that can get plugged into an equation like that.
But I have no problem at all with trying to reduce all of human life to a seemingly-mathematical equation because I feel that that does justice to my complexity. All of my experiences ar totally, like, stuff that counts as stuff in contexts. It's both insightful and true, not to speak of practically helpful and generative of new research questions.
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