Thinking, Language, and Concepts

Forsberg, Niklas

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“…The idea of courage we have at 20 is different from the idea we have at 40. Forsberg connects this insight to Wittgenstein's remarks on our use of words without fixed meanings (Forsberg, 2022, p. 119).…”

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Paradox and discovery: Iris Murdoch, John Wisdom, and the practice of linguistic philosophy

Jamieson

2023

European J of Philosophy

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This article argues that Iris Murdoch, who was supervised by John Wisdom during her 1947–48 fellowship at Newnham College Cambridge, went on to practice philosophy in a recognizably Wisdomian manner in her earliest paper, “Thinking and Language” (1951). To do so, I first describe how Wisdom understood philosophical perplexity and paradox. One task that linguistic philosophers should take up is to investigate the concrete cases that give paradoxical philosophical statements their sense and to sift the truth they contain from the distortion. I then show how this vision informed his critical reception of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind as well as his own investigation of the Hidden Stream Paradox. Finally, I trace a similar approach to Murdoch's discussions of a paradox I call the Coarse Net Paradox. Recognizing Murdoch's intellectual inheritance from Wisdom enables us to see a thus‐far overlooked connection between Murdoch and the tradition of linguistic philosophy.

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“…1 1 Niklas Forsberg, who argues that Murdoch may be described as an “ordinary language philosopher” (“given, of course, that one understands ‘ordinary language philosophy’ in the right way”), notes that this position has been met with strong resistance from Murdoch scholars (Forsberg, 2022, p. 115). …”

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Paradox and discovery: Iris Murdoch, John Wisdom, and the practice of linguistic philosophy

Jamieson

2023

European J of Philosophy

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In Hindsight: An Essay Concerning My Limited Moral Understanding

Forsberg

2023

J Ethics

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Love's realism: Iris Murdoch and the importance of being human

Jamieson

2024

European J of Philosophy

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Defenders of two Rationality Views of love—the Qualities View and the Personhood View—have drawn on Iris Murdoch's philosophical writings to highlight a connection between love and a “realistic” perspective on the beloved. Murdoch does not inform the basic structure of these views—she is rather introduced as a supplement who shows that in love, we pay accurate, nuanced, unguarded, and unflinching attention to the other. In this paper, I contend that these authors have failed to see that Murdoch offers a distinct view of love and is inappropriate to enlist as an ally. This is in large part because they have missed the full sense of what Murdoch means by connecting love and realism. I contend that for Murdoch, to love someone means seeing them in light of a realistic vision of what it means to be human; this includes an appreciation of the limits of freedom, the formative influence of personal history, and the nature and extent of our differences from one another. This helps us to see why Murdoch variously describes loving attention as realistic, compassionate, tolerant, and extremely difficult. It also sheds light on some important and familiar ways that we criticize one another's grounds for love.

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Thinking, Language, and Concepts

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Paradox and discovery: Iris Murdoch, John Wisdom, and the practice of linguistic philosophy

Paradox and discovery: Iris Murdoch, John Wisdom, and the practice of linguistic philosophy

In Hindsight: An Essay Concerning My Limited Moral Understanding

Love's realism: Iris Murdoch and the importance of being human

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