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Dewey’s task, then, was to articulate the means by which the public can discover and identify itself, “so that genuinely shared interest in the consequences of interdependent activities may inform desire and effort and thereby direct action.”
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Communication of the results of social inquiry is the same thing as the formation of public opinion.
- Chris Long on 19 May 14
  
  Here I wonder if we can link to Habermas and the movement from Leserwelt to public.
  
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freedom from government-sanctioned doctrinal constraints; and freedom to pursue the truth wherever it might lead in making a contribution to the world of learning.
- Chris Long on 19 May 14
  
  Refer to this in my section on Kant as not giving up his private rights in writing on the enlightenment.
  
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While Dewey agrees with Lippmann
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  I'd like to hear more about the Lippmann argument here. Just a few sentences.
  
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In this case, philosophers must be considered not as faculty members but as fellow citizens
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If so, how does a philosophical community balance the opportunities for communication made possible by growing interest in the digital humanities with the need for active local communities?
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Designing a space for the PPJ Community | Part 2 | André Avillez - 4 views

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The Weirdness of Being: Heidegger's Unheard Answer to the Seinsfrage // Reviews // Notr... - 5 views

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Art and Truth after Plato // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University ... - 4 views

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The purpose of this book, we are told right at the start, is to address anew 'the old question, often neglected in contemporary aesthetic debates, about art and truth, or art and cognition' (p. 1)
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His purpose is to survey these varied responses, trace their development and adjudicate among them
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very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays
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His opening chapter sets out Plato's contentions about art and truth
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Summary points here seem fair.
  
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In any event, though the chapter on 'Christian Platonic and Anti-Platonic Art' is not noticeably shorter than the others, it does not have a key role in the philosophical trajectory that Rockmore is tracing.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Critical comment, but fairly stated, not harsh, matter of fact.
  
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very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Not clear if these are positive or negative points, but the focus on those who receive scant attention point seems positive.
  
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- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Identifies aims - good, but relies on direct quotation - bad.
  
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rather long and unusual excursion through Marxist aesthetics.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  There is implicit judgement here, and no imagination about why Rockmore might be taking this approach. More generosity needed here.
  
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This is a hugely ambitious book, and the range of reading that has gone into its making cannot but be impressive, though the steady flow of many lengthy summaries and brief references to a huge number of writers makes for rather heavy going on the part of the reader.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Praise, tempered by a sort of critique here. As if a simply positive remark can't stand on its own. Also, the vocabulary is one of coercion "cannot but be impressive."
  
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more importantly flawed, and in a number of critical ways
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  OK, but is this the best way to say this?
  
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No real evidence is offered of this neglect, and indeed the book is remarkable for making virtually no reference to contemporary work in aesthetics.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Fair point about references, but fine. Then belittling language "even the briefest survey would show..." - shame tactic.
  
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Rockmore might object
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Indication that the reviewer is imagining his way into the mind of the author - imagine a response. Good.
  
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Viewed in this light, however, it does not come out very well.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  So simple positive comments are avoided, but simple negative ones are not. Then ... "conspicuous failures."
  
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(to my mind)
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Recognizes own position might be limited.
  
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serious methodological weaknesses that undermine some of its claims.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Negative comment, not nasty, but not nicely put.
  
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what most people recognize to be a caricature
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Appeal to "most people" is a failure to take ownership of own critique.
  
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It is no pleasure to give a serious and substantial philosophical work such a low rating. So on the positive side I think it can safely be said that readers will undoubtedly benefit from Rockmore's range of reference.
- Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
  
  Begrudging critique, but limited praise.
  
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- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  Overview of target project. Seems like one the author would endorse, but it's impossible to know without asking the author, and difficult to guess without having read the work being reviewed.
  
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hat 'long ago'
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  Derisive tone
  
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story
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  Referring to the content of the book as a story rather than as a historical overview implies that the work lacks academic legitimacy
  
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'Middle Ages'
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  The use of scare quotes here, and the qualifiers that follow, imply a veiled criticism. It seems that criticisms must be open in order to be collegial, for otherwise they imply that the target's author is too dimwitted to grasp a meaning which is plainly grasped by the reviewer and the audience.
  
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even the briefest survey would show, I think, that 'aesthetic cognitivism', as it is increasingly referred to, is not only widely discussed, but alive and wel
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  Very critical language, framing a serious critique. Yet it seems that the obvious has not been stated: the author was too focused on the continental tradition, and the reviewer was largely unfamiliar with that tradition (so much so that he saw the "excursion" into marxist aesthetics as unusual)
  
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For example, he uses the expressions 'art and truth' and 'art and cognition' more or less interchangeably. But the conflation of 'truth' and 'cognition' confounds many of the issues he want to discuss, because there are important dimensions to cognition other than truth
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  Criticism of the target, attempted at the target's own terms.
  
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with which contemporary aesthetics is concerned.
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  One has to worry here of how the discipline is being defined. Does analytic philosophy have dominance over the field?
  
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In doing so he ranges very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays, devoting a whole chapter to 'Marx, Marxism, and Aesthetic Realism', for instance.
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  Praise for target of review
  
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n any event, though the chapter on 'Christian Platonic and Anti-Platonic Art' is not noticeably shorter than the others, it does not have a key role in the philosophical trajectory that Rockmore is tracing.
- André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
  
  Implies that the chapter is unnecessary, and does not attempt to see why it would have been left in. Even if a philosophical aesthetics is not present in this long period, the author may have chosen to discuss it for the sake of completeness, and to show to what extent a philosophy of art/ aesthetics existed in the middle ages.
  
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André de Avillez on 17 Jun 14

A negative review which labors to see the merits in the target

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