Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for J Fodor / E Lepore, Erving Goffman and Arthur C. Danto

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4 ideas

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct

8044	Goffman sees the self as no more than a peg on which to hang roles we play [Goffman, by MacIntyre]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

9381	If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

20328

A thing is only seen as art in an 'artworld', which has a theory and a history [Danto]

20441

An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto]