Matt said to Gav:
...In fact, I even avoid putting the point like Sellars did these days: "all
awareness is a linguistic affair." Because that slogan confuses
retro-pragmatists who don't see it as making the same tactical move in an
adjacent philosophical game as the slogan "experience is reality." But really,
I think, maya-lovers, Pirsig, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Sellars, and James
are all saying pretty much the same thing on this score.
dmb says:
That's not true. To gloss over the difference between language and experience
is a bit ham-handed. Take the title of Colin Koopman's paper in the Journal of
Speculative Philosophy; "Language is a Form of Experience: Reconciling
Classical Pragmatism and Neopragmatism". Recognizing the tension between these
two, Koopman takes on the task of trying to create a third kind of pragmatism
that does justice to both "experience" and "language", and to both James and
Rorty. There is also Cheryl Misak's "Pragmatism on Solidarity, Bullshit and
other Deformities of Truth". Similarly, she examines the seemingly
irreconcilable difference between analytic truth theories and the pragmatic
theory of truth with an eye toward closing that gap. (Although she seems to
conflate James and Rorty.) There are several paper that defend James against
Rorty's linguisticized pragmatism and others that grapple with the linguistic
turn and what it means for his empiricism. Given the heated conversations that
are going on in the journals about this difference between experience and
language, I really don't see how your claim could be true.
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