Robert Chodat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Chodat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Chodat |
| SIGNATURE | CHODAT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Matter of High Words
Ambitious scientific accounts of human thought and behavior have been a mainstay of American intellectual culture since World War II. But if such theories are true, what is the status of our highest words, the vocabularies that orient and inspire our actions? What forms are available today for exploring and embodying such terms as “good,” “courage,” or “justice”? This book considers the rise of the “postwar sage,” a strand of post-1945 American w…
Sociology to the Scientists: Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage
Unlike Percy and Robinson, Ellison shows minimal interest in religious questions, and in this sense can be seen as part of a larger anticlerical project among some twentieth-century African-American writers. Unlike many other secular black intellectuals, however, he scorns the social sciences. His nonfiction repeatedly distinguishes meaning from matter, purposeful action from bodily motion, and continually highlights both “improvisation” and “bla…
Naturalism and Narrative, Or, What Computers and Human Beings Can't Do
Recent efforts to merge literary studies and cognitive science are insufficiently cognizant of important philosophical critiques of AI. Philosophers such as Dreyfus, Haugeland, and Taylor expose the naturalistic and atomistic biases of cognitivist research through their holistic emphasis on context and situated understanding. Yet these philosophical arguments are themselves haunted by important questions, which come to light in Powers's Galatea 2…
The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and the Foreign Word
Research Article| June 01 2004 The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and the Foreign Word Robert Chodat Robert Chodat Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 50–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-41.4.50 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Chodat; The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and th…
The Vegetation of Paraguay
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The Vegetation of Paraguay
The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and the Foreign Word
Research Article| June 01 2004 The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and the Foreign Word Robert Chodat Robert Chodat Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 50–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-41.4.50 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Chodat; The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and th…
Naturalism and Narrative, Or, What Computers and Human Beings Can't Do
Recent efforts to merge literary studies and cognitive science are insufficiently cognizant of important philosophical critiques of AI. Philosophers such as Dreyfus, Haugeland, and Taylor expose the naturalistic and atomistic biases of cognitivist research through their holistic emphasis on context and situated understanding. Yet these philosophical arguments are themselves haunted by important questions, which come to light in Powers's Galatea 2…
The Matter of High Words
Ambitious scientific accounts of human thought and behavior have been a mainstay of American intellectual culture since World War II. But if such theories are true, what is the status of our highest words, the vocabularies that orient and inspire our actions? What forms are available today for exploring and embodying such terms as “good,” “courage,” or “justice”? This book considers the rise of the “postwar sage,” a strand of post-1945 American w…
Sociology to the Scientists: Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage
Unlike Percy and Robinson, Ellison shows minimal interest in religious questions, and in this sense can be seen as part of a larger anticlerical project among some twentieth-century African-American writers. Unlike many other secular black intellectuals, however, he scorns the social sciences. His nonfiction repeatedly distinguishes meaning from matter, purposeful action from bodily motion, and continually highlights both “improvisation” and “bla…
Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 20th century (1 works) · Action (physics) (1 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (1 works) · American literature (1 works) · Citation (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Cognitivism (psychology) (1 works)