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This paper attempts to locate current theories about the " principle of charity " within a tradition of thought dealing with the anthropological problem : what is the right way to gain an understanding of other languages, other cultures, other languages ? Traditionally, the answer has been provided by a philosophical doctrine of common sense (all human beings share the same forms of exercising their rational powers). Quine's radical translator and Davidson's radical interprator belong to such a tradition, which does not seem to take into account the facts of human diversity. However, a common sense philosophy inspired by Vico and Wittgenstein should be able to make room both for " charity " (by means of a general common sense shared by all human beings) and for the diversity of forms of life (expressed in local particular common senses within each culture).

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Ordinary-language philosophy --- Ordinary-language analysis --- Ordinary-language method --- Philosophy, Ordinary-language --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Language and languages --- Philosophy

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The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary-how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact.Rosen's approach is both historical and philosophical. He offers Montesquieu and Husserl as examples of the scientific approach to ordinary experience; contrasts Kant and Heidegger with Aristotle to illustrate the transcendental approach and its main alternatives; discusses attempts by Wittgenstein and Strauss to return to the pre-theoretical domain; and analyzes the differences among such thinkers as Moore, Austin, Grice, and Russell with respect to the analytical response to ordinary language. Rosen concludes with a theoretical exploration of the central problem of how to capture the elusive ordinary intact.

Ordinary-language philosophy. --- Ordinary-language analysis --- Ordinary-language method --- Philosophy, Ordinary-language --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Language and languages --- Philosophy

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In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topics-from eros, poetry, and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen's essays share two unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines. Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.Philosophical problems are not so deeply embedded in a specific historical context that they cannot be restated in terms as valid for us today as they were for those who formulated them, the author maintains. Rosen shows that the history of philosophy-a story of conflicting interpretations of human life and the structure of intelligibility-is a story that comes to life only when it is rethought in terms of the philosophical problems of our own personal and historical situation.

Philosophy. --- Ordinary-language philosophy. --- Ordinary-language philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Ordinary-language analysis --- Ordinary-language method --- Philosophy, Ordinary-language --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Language and languages --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Metaphysics

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On a longtemps considéré Wittgenstein comme un anti-mentaliste qui niait l'existence ou l'intérêt des processus ou états mentaux. En réalité il lutte contre des mythes par exemple celui de l'intériorité et non pas contre le sujet intériorité. La seule façon d'échapper à l'emprise des mythes est de trouver une manière non mystifiante de parler de la vie mentale, donc d'étudier la grammaire de nos concepts psychologiques pour nous défaire des images incrustées dans notre langage.

Ordinary-language philosophy. --- Phenomenological psychology. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig,