Victor Knoll
Biographic Data
| ID | 321388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Knoll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Knoll |
| SIGNATURE | KNOLL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7550-6100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Topics, disputes and ‘going meta’
On a naive view of conceptual engineering, conceptual engineers simply aim at engineering concepts. This picture has recently come under attack. Sarah Sawyer and Derek Ball present two rather different, yet equally unorthodox, accounts of conceptual engineering, which they take to be superior to the naive picture. This paper casts doubts on the superiority of their respective accounts. By elaborating on the explanatory potential of ‘going meta’, …
Verbal disputes and topic continuity
Changing concepts comes with a risk of creating merely verbal disputes. Accounts of topic continuity (such as Herman Cappelen’s) are supposed to solve this problem. As this paper shows, however, no existing solution avoids the danger of mere verbalness. On the contrary, accounts of topic continuity in fact increase the danger of overlooking merely verbal disputes between pre- and post-ameliorators. Ultimately, this paper suggests accepting the da…
The normativity of gender discourse
Many disputes about gender are normatively charged. To account for this, some suggest building normativity into the semantics of gender terms. I propose an alternative, pragmatic account. When speakers utter gender-attributing sentences of the form ‘Person A is of gender G’, they often pragmatically convey normative content about whether A should be categorized as G. After critically discussing the semantic approach, I motivate and discuss in det…
(Mere) Verbalness and Substantivity Revisited
Verbal disputes are often seen as closely related to a lack of substantivity. However, a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how verbalness relates to substantivity is still missing. The present paper attempts to close this gap. In addition to offering different conceptions of verbalness, the paper further develops Sider’s (Writing the Book of the World, OUP, Oxford, 2011) notion of substantivity. Ultimately, I argue for a more careful …
Negotiating “women”
The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and linguistic conservatives as metalinguistic disagreements on how best to use particular expressions. As the present paper argues, this approach has various merits. However, it was recently criticised in Cappelen’s seminal Fixing Language (2018). Cappelen raises an important objection against the metalinguistic picture. Acco…
Hai-Kai
Imitação e manifestação
De um lado, a noção de imitação, assumida por Aristóteles tanto na Física quanto na Poética, destituída de todo e qualquer caráter de cópia ou simulacro, e, de outro, a de manifestação, tal como foi empregada por Hegel nos Cursos de estética, são duas noções que este artigo pretende aproximar. Ou mesmo, mostrar que podem ser vistas como equivalentes, guardados os compromissos que cada uma delas mantém com cada um dos sistemas. Tal tentativa supõe…
Bienal De São Paulo
Sobre a Questão da Mimesis
A partir do esclarecimento da noção aristotélica de imitação, trata-se de mostrar que o conceito de Ideal - fundamento da Estética de Hegel - e o binômio "mundo/terra" - fundamento da concepção heideggeriana da obra de arte -, podem ser tomados como duas versões do sentido teórico instituído por Aristóteles para o termo mimesis
História, religião e arte
As preocupações teóricas de Hegel durante o seu período de formação envolveram a Aufklärung, as relações entre a razão e a religião e eventos ético-políticos. Quanto a estes últimos, as referências fundamentais foram a vida pública da Grécia clássica e as transformações pelas quais passava a Europa, em particular a Revolução Francesa. As múltiplas relações e implicações dessas preocupações teóricas durante o referido período envolviam uma aproxim…
No prominent works on this page.
Sobre a Questão da Mimesis
A partir do esclarecimento da noção aristotélica de imitação, trata-se de mostrar que o conceito de Ideal - fundamento da Estética de Hegel - e o binômio "mundo/terra" - fundamento da concepção heideggeriana da obra de arte -, podem ser tomados como duas versões do sentido teórico instituído por Aristóteles para o termo mimesis
História, religião e arte
As preocupações teóricas de Hegel durante o seu período de formação envolveram a Aufklärung, as relações entre a razão e a religião e eventos ético-políticos. Quanto a estes últimos, as referências fundamentais foram a vida pública da Grécia clássica e as transformações pelas quais passava a Europa, em particular a Revolução Francesa. As múltiplas relações e implicações dessas preocupações teóricas durante o referido período envolviam uma aproxim…
Bienal De São Paulo
Imitação e manifestação
De um lado, a noção de imitação, assumida por Aristóteles tanto na Física quanto na Poética, destituída de todo e qualquer caráter de cópia ou simulacro, e, de outro, a de manifestação, tal como foi empregada por Hegel nos Cursos de estética, são duas noções que este artigo pretende aproximar. Ou mesmo, mostrar que podem ser vistas como equivalentes, guardados os compromissos que cada uma delas mantém com cada um dos sistemas. Tal tentativa supõe…
Hai-Kai
Negotiating “women”
The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and linguistic conservatives as metalinguistic disagreements on how best to use particular expressions. As the present paper argues, this approach has various merits. However, it was recently criticised in Cappelen’s seminal Fixing Language (2018). Cappelen raises an important objection against the metalinguistic picture. Acco…
(Mere) Verbalness and Substantivity Revisited
Verbal disputes are often seen as closely related to a lack of substantivity. However, a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how verbalness relates to substantivity is still missing. The present paper attempts to close this gap. In addition to offering different conceptions of verbalness, the paper further develops Sider’s (Writing the Book of the World, OUP, Oxford, 2011) notion of substantivity. Ultimately, I argue for a more careful …
Verbal disputes and topic continuity
Changing concepts comes with a risk of creating merely verbal disputes. Accounts of topic continuity (such as Herman Cappelen’s) are supposed to solve this problem. As this paper shows, however, no existing solution avoids the danger of mere verbalness. On the contrary, accounts of topic continuity in fact increase the danger of overlooking merely verbal disputes between pre- and post-ameliorators. Ultimately, this paper suggests accepting the da…
The normativity of gender discourse
Many disputes about gender are normatively charged. To account for this, some suggest building normativity into the semantics of gender terms. I propose an alternative, pragmatic account. When speakers utter gender-attributing sentences of the form ‘Person A is of gender G’, they often pragmatically convey normative content about whether A should be categorized as G. After critically discussing the semantic approach, I motivate and discuss in det…
Topics, disputes and ‘going meta’
On a naive view of conceptual engineering, conceptual engineers simply aim at engineering concepts. This picture has recently come under attack. Sarah Sawyer and Derek Ball present two rather different, yet equally unorthodox, accounts of conceptual engineering, which they take to be superior to the naive picture. This paper casts doubts on the superiority of their respective accounts. By elaborating on the explanatory potential of ‘going meta’, …
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Philosophy and Historical Thought (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)