Friday 17 June 2011

REVIEW OF SKINNER VS KEAN DEBATE

REVIEW OF SKINNER VS KEAN DEBATE

  • Keane criticizes that it is possible to recover the intentionality claim of the authors behind the authors for basically two reason:

    • Kean says that we cannot ignore the psychoanalyst elements, like the subconscious and so on.

      • And Skinner talks about psychoanalysis also but he dismisses it because, according to him, while explaining an idea one should use terms that are available to the reader

    • Kean says that language is not a transparent toll to refer to realities but, instead, something which create meanings as well. For so, we got to understand…

  • Winch says that people have their belief systems, which are different, and each belief systems express itself through a language that, consequently, create a whole world.

  • Kean point five talks about the parts on which he agrees with Skinner.

  • Kean criticizes skinner for not being hermeneutics in that particular paper

  • Habermas, father of hermeneutics, says that any kind of interpretation Is subjective… regarding, both, the subjective of the interpreters and the interpreted.

  • Criticizes Skinner from inside, showing failures, and outside, as a post-structuralism.



  • Questions raised on all the texts so far

How can the self understand the other?

What is the relation between language and reality?

How legitimate/feasible is it to offer a critique on different societies?

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