Binding: Hardcover
Description: Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy. We generally have no trouble expressing complex ideas that we have never considered before though not always. Articulating a thought can also be extremely hard. Our difficulties in articulating thoughts pervade many aspects of philosophical inquiry as well as many ordinary situations. While we may overcome some of the challenges through education and practice we cannot do away with them altogether. And the hardest thoughts to articulate often come to us unbidden: as we neither assemble them from other thoughts nor get them from any source of external information. They can come from us freely and spontaneously and frequently we articulate them in order to find out what they are. In many cases we would not bother articulating our thoughts if we already had this knowledge - - yet when we find the right words we can often instantly tell that they express our thought. How do we manage to recognize the formulations of our thoughts in the absence of prior knowledge of what we are thinking? And why is it that producing a public language formulation contributes in any way to the deeply private undertaking of coming to know our own thoughts? In Articulating a Thought Eli Alshanetsky considers how we make our thoughts clear to ourselves in the process of putting them into words and examines the paradox of those difficult cases where we do not already know what we are struggling to articulate.
Title: Articulating A Thought
Author(s): Alshanetsky Eli (Assistant Professor Of Philosophy Assistant Professor Of Philosophy Temple University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198785880
Pages: 174 Pages
Publication Date: 1/28/2020
Category: States Of Consciousness