Elisabeth Camp
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1490253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elisabeth Camp |
| NOMBRES | Elisabeth |
| APELLIDO | Camp |
| FIRMA | CAMP E |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3919-495X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Stories and Selves
I argue that stories are ‘equipment for living’ in two senses: retrospectively, they provide ‘configurational comprehension’ of a temporal sequence of events; prospectively, they offer templates for action. Narrative conceptions of the self appear well poised to leverage these functional roles for stories into an intuitively compelling view of self-construction as self-construal. However, the narrative conception defines selves in terms of the li…
Playing with labels
Identity labels like "woman", "Black," "mother," and "evangelical" are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to ri…
Agency, Stability, and Permeability in "Games"
In “Games and the Art of Agency,” Thi Nguyen argues that games both highlight and foster a profound complexity in human motivation, in the form of “purposeful and managed agential disunity.” I agree that human agency is “fluid and fleeting” rather than stable and unified; but I argue that Nguyen’s analysis itself relies on a traditional conception of selves as enduring goal-driven agents which his discussion calls into question. Without this conc…
Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement With Fiction
Slurring Perspectives
Slurs are among the most rhetorically powerful and insidious expressions in a language. One key reason for this, I will argue, is that they present contents from a certain perspective, which is difficult to dislodge despite the fact that it is precisely what a nonbigoted hearer most wants to resist.
Putting Thoughts to Work
I argue that we can reconcile two seemingly incompatible traditions for thinking about concepts. On the one hand, many cognitive scientists assume that the systematic redeployment of representational abilities suffices for having concepts. On the other hand, a long philosophical tradition maintains that language is necessary for genuinely conceptual thought. I argue that on a theoretically useful and empirically plausible concept of ‘concept’, it…
Sarcastic ‘Like’
The expression ‘Like ’ has a wide variety of uses among English and American speakers. It may describe preference, as in (1) She likes mint chip ice cream. It may be used as a vehicle of comparison, as in (2) Trieste is like Minsk on steroids. Sometimes it is used among American adolescents as quasi-quotational device that reenacts a private or public drama, as in (3) She was like, we need to get out of here fast. 1 And sometimes it used scatters…
Thinking With Maps
Metaphor in the Mind
The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic metaphors are processed differently than literal speech, while relatively conventionalized and contextually salient metaphors are processed more like literal speech. This conflicts with the view of "cognitive linguists" like George Lakoff that all or nearly all thought is essentiall…
The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions
Journal Article The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions Get access Elisabeth Camp Elisabeth Camp Society of Fellows, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 215, April 2004, Pages 209–231, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00348.x Published: 17 May 2004
Thinking With Maps
Putting Thoughts to Work
I argue that we can reconcile two seemingly incompatible traditions for thinking about concepts. On the one hand, many cognitive scientists assume that the systematic redeployment of representational abilities suffices for having concepts. On the other hand, a long philosophical tradition maintains that language is necessary for genuinely conceptual thought. I argue that on a theoretically useful and empirically plausible concept of ‘concept’, it…
Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement With Fiction
The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions
Journal Article The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions Get access Elisabeth Camp Elisabeth Camp Society of Fellows, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 215, April 2004, Pages 209–231, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00348.x Published: 17 May 2004
Metaphor in the Mind
The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic metaphors are processed differently than literal speech, while relatively conventionalized and contextually salient metaphors are processed more like literal speech. This conflicts with the view of "cognitive linguists" like George Lakoff that all or nearly all thought is essentiall…
Playing with labels
Identity labels like "woman", "Black," "mother," and "evangelical" are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to ri…
Sarcastic ‘Like’
The expression ‘Like ’ has a wide variety of uses among English and American speakers. It may describe preference, as in (1) She likes mint chip ice cream. It may be used as a vehicle of comparison, as in (2) Trieste is like Minsk on steroids. Sometimes it is used among American adolescents as quasi-quotational device that reenacts a private or public drama, as in (3) She was like, we need to get out of here fast. 1 And sometimes it used scatters…
The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions
Journal Article The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions Get access Elisabeth Camp Elisabeth Camp Society of Fellows, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 215, April 2004, Pages 209–231, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00348.x Published: 17 May 2004
Metaphor in the Mind
The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic metaphors are processed differently than literal speech, while relatively conventionalized and contextually salient metaphors are processed more like literal speech. This conflicts with the view of "cognitive linguists" like George Lakoff that all or nearly all thought is essentiall…
Thinking With Maps
Sarcastic ‘Like’
The expression ‘Like ’ has a wide variety of uses among English and American speakers. It may describe preference, as in (1) She likes mint chip ice cream. It may be used as a vehicle of comparison, as in (2) Trieste is like Minsk on steroids. Sometimes it is used among American adolescents as quasi-quotational device that reenacts a private or public drama, as in (3) She was like, we need to get out of here fast. 1 And sometimes it used scatters…
Putting Thoughts to Work
I argue that we can reconcile two seemingly incompatible traditions for thinking about concepts. On the one hand, many cognitive scientists assume that the systematic redeployment of representational abilities suffices for having concepts. On the other hand, a long philosophical tradition maintains that language is necessary for genuinely conceptual thought. I argue that on a theoretically useful and empirically plausible concept of ‘concept’, it…
Slurring Perspectives
Slurs are among the most rhetorically powerful and insidious expressions in a language. One key reason for this, I will argue, is that they present contents from a certain perspective, which is difficult to dislodge despite the fact that it is precisely what a nonbigoted hearer most wants to resist.
Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement With Fiction
Agency, Stability, and Permeability in "Games"
In “Games and the Art of Agency,” Thi Nguyen argues that games both highlight and foster a profound complexity in human motivation, in the form of “purposeful and managed agential disunity.” I agree that human agency is “fluid and fleeting” rather than stable and unified; but I argue that Nguyen’s analysis itself relies on a traditional conception of selves as enduring goal-driven agents which his discussion calls into question. Without this conc…
Stories and Selves
I argue that stories are ‘equipment for living’ in two senses: retrospectively, they provide ‘configurational comprehension’ of a temporal sequence of events; prospectively, they offer templates for action. Narrative conceptions of the self appear well poised to leverage these functional roles for stories into an intuitively compelling view of self-construction as self-construal. However, the narrative conception defines selves in terms of the li…
Playing with labels
Identity labels like "woman", "Black," "mother," and "evangelical" are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to ri…
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