TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spiegel, Thomas Jussuf
T1  - The Scientific Weltanschauung
BT  - (Anti-)Naturalism in Dilthey, Jaspers and Analytic Philosophy
JF  - Journal of Transcendental Philosophy
N2  - Different forms of methodological and ontological naturalism constitute the current near-orthodoxy in analytic philosophy. Many prominent figures have called naturalism a (scientific) image (Sellars, W. 1962. “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man.” In Wilfrid Sellars, Science, Perception, Reality, 1–40. Ridgeview Publishing), a Weltanschauung (Loewer, B. 2001. “From Physics to Physicalism.” In Physicalism and its Discontents, edited by C. Gillett, and B. Loewer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Stoljar, D. 2010. Physicalism. Routledge), or even a “philosophical ideology” (Kim, J. 2003. “The American Origins of Philosophical Naturalism.” Journal of Philosophical Research 28: 83–98). This suggests that naturalism is indeed something over-and-above an ordinary philosophical thesis (e.g. in contrast to the justified true belief-theory of knowledge). However, these thinkers fail to tease out the host of implications this idea – naturalism being a worldview – presents. This paper draws on (somewhat underappreciated) remarks of Dilthey and Jaspers on the concept of worldviews (Weltanschauung, Weltbild) in order to demonstrate that naturalism as a worldview is a presuppositional background assumption which is left untouched by arguments against naturalism as a thesis. The concluding plea is (in order to make dialectical progress) to re-organize the existing debate on naturalism in a way that treats naturalism not as a first-order philosophical claim, but rather shifts its focus on naturalism’s status as a worldview.
KW  - naturalism
KW  - ideology
KW  - Dilthey
KW  - Jaspers
KW  - scientific image
KW  - worldview
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/jtph-2021-0016
SN  - 2626-8329
SN  - 2626-8310
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
SP  - 259
EP  - 276
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin ; Boston
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Distelmeyer, Jan
T1  - From object to process
BT  - Interface politics of networked computerization
JF  - Artnodes
N2  - One of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present at the same time, the paper proposes to reconsider the concept of interface, its historical roots, and its heuristic advantages for an analysis and critique of the current and especially everyday spread of computerization. The question of interfaces leads to isolable conditions and processes of conduction, as well as to the complexity of the cooperation formed by them. It opens both an investigative horizon and a mode of analysis, which always asks for further interface levels involved in the phenomenon I am currently investigating. As an example, the paper turns to the displacement of the file with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and its comeback in 2017 with the "Files" apps. Both developments are profoundly related to the establishment of computers as permanently networked machines, whereby their functionality, depresentations, and ideology come into focus.
KW  - interface
KW  - conduction
KW  - network
KW  - ideology
KW  - depresentation
KW  - digital objects
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i24.3300
SN  - 1695-5951
IS  - 24
SP  - 83
EP  - 90
PB  - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
CY  - Barcelona
ER  -