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Responsibility and the physical body. Paul Ricoeur on analytical philosophy of language, cognitive science, and the task of phenomenological hermeneutics

SYSNO ASEP	0483770
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Responsibility and the physical body. Paul Ricoeur on analytical philosophy of language, cognitive science, and the task of phenomenological hermeneutics
Author(s)	Dierckxsens, Geoffrey (FLU-F)_{ORCID, RID, SAI}
Source Title	Philosophy Today - ISSN 0031-8256 Roč. 61, č. 3 (2017), s. 573-593
Number of pages	21 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	analytical philosophy ; body ; cognitive science ; hermeneutics ; phenomenology ; philosophy of language ; Ricoeur
Subject RIV	AA - Philosophy ; Religion
OECD category	Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Institutional support	FLU-F - RVO:67985955
UT WOS	000424944300006
EID SCOPUS	85037696233
DOI	10.5840/philtoday2017926172
Annotation	This article examines Paul Ricoeur's discussion of analytical philosophy of language. I argue that Ricoeur's idea of responsibility is exemplary for understanding this discussion and for understanding how he conceives of the task of phenomenological hermeneutics in relation to analytical philosophy and cognitive science. According to Ricoeur, analytical philosophy of language explains how we use ordinary language for ascribing responsibility to the actions of agents (e.g., X is responsible for giving a speech). I argue that Ricoeur shows that the task of cognitive science is similar: explaining the causal relation between human action and the physical body (e.g., the debate on responsibility and neuroscience). The task of phenomenological hermeneutics consists then, so I aim to demonstrate in line with Ricoeur, in understanding the motives of human action, which implies interpretation of text and of the self 's narrative identity: in narratives we learn the reasons for being responsible, which are not simply identifiable by cognitive science as empirical relations.
Workplace	Institute of Philosophy
Contact	Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360
Year of Publishing	2018

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