David Ingram
Biographic Data
| ID | 3713488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ingram |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ingram |
| SIGNATURE | INGRAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2435-3949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 90 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 90 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia
Capitalism on Edge aims to redraw the terms of analysis of the so-called democratic capitalism and sketches a political agenda for emancipating society of its grip. This symposium reflects critically on Azmanova’s book and challenges her arguments on methodological, thematic, and substantive grounds. Azar Dakwar introduces the book’s claims and wonders about the nature of the anti-capitalistic agency Azmanova’s ascribes to the precariat. David In…
Response to my commentators
Before responding to my commentators, I would like to thank each of them for having taken time out of their busy lives to read a long and at times densely argued book.I chose them as my interlocutors because their reflections on selected topics had already served me well in composing
Imaginaries of modernity: Politics, culture, tensions
The Ethics of Development: An Introduction
The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development. The book addresses important questions such as: What does development mean? Is there a human right to development? If we aim for sustainable development in an age of global climate change, should developed nations sacrifice economic growth for the sake of allowing developing countries to catch up? Shoul…
World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion
World Crisis and Underdevelopment examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. Its scope is comprehensive, encompassing discussions about development science, philosophical anthropology, global migration, global capi…
Thisness Presentism: An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology
Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather than static and immutable. The book advances a new defence of presentism by developing a novel ontology of thisness, combini…
My critical time in Prague: Reminiscence not theory
Nefarious Presentism
Presentists, who believe that only present objects exist, face a problem concerning truths about the past. Presentists should (but cannot) locate truth-makers for truths about the past. What can presentists say in response? We identify two rival factions: ‘upstanding’ and ‘nefarious’ presentists. Upstanding presentists aim to meet the challenge, positing presently existing truth-makers for truths about the past; nefarious presentists aim to shirk…
Avatar and nature spirituality
Inside its gorgeously bioluminescent cover, Avatar and Nature Spirituality is an impressively multidisciplinary collection of essays whose range includes film studies, histories of religion, scienc
Critical Theory to Structuralism: Philosophy, Politics and the Human Sciences
How Secular Should Democracy Be? A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Catholicism and Islam in Promoting Public Reason
I argue that the same factors (strategic and principled) that motivated Catholicism to champion liberal democracy are the same that motivate twenty-first-century Islam to do the same. I defend this claim by linking political liberalism to democratic secularism. Distinguishing institutional, political, and epistemic dimensions of democratic secularism, I show that moderate forms of political and epistemic secularism are most conducive to fostering…
Reconciling positivism and realism: Kelsen and Habermas on democracy and human rights
It is well known that Hans Kelsen and Jürgen Habermas invoke realist arguments drawn from social science in defending an international, democratic human rights regime against Carl Schmitt’s attack on the rule of law. However, despite embracing the realist spirit of Kelsen’s legal positivism, Habermas criticizes Kelsen for neglecting to connect the rule of law with a concept of procedural justice (Part I). I argue, to the contrary (Part II), that …
Habermas: Introduction and Analysis
The work of Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an introduction to Habermas's complex thought as it has evolved from 1953 to the present, spanning philosophy, religion, political science, social science, and law. One of today's most intriguing thinkers, Habermas is also notably prolific; for students and other readers who wish to na…
Book Symposium on Andrew Feenberg’s Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self by Linda Alcoff
Blues and country music
Works Cited
Country rock
World music
Popular music and ‘nature’
Jazz
Eco-listening
Preliminary Material
Popular music and environmental ethics
S rock and R’n’B
The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960
Since the rise of the contemporary ecology movement in the 1960s, American songwriters and composers, from folk singer Pete Seeger to jazz saxophonist Paul Winter, have lamented, and protested against, environmental degradation and injustice. The Jukebox in the Garden is the first book to survey a wide range of musical styles, including folk, country, blues, rock, jazz, electronica and hip hop, to examine the different ways in which popular music…
The Limits and Possibilities of Communicative Ethics for Democratic Theory
ROUSSEAU'S BELIEF THAT political rationality requires democratic participation appears quaint by the lights of contemporary rational choice theory. Democracy, we are told, seldom if ever generates rational outcomes or uniquely consistent, maximal rank orderings of preferences of the sort required by a volont6 gdnerale.' Against this view it may be objected that democratic rationality resides elsewhere, namely, in its salubrious effects on the dev…
The Acquisition Of Word-Initial [v]
It is a well-documented fact that word-initial [v] (or [v-]) is not acquired in English until quite late, with group data indicating around age 4;0. Recently, Locke (1983) has proposed a biological explanation for this, claiming that [v] is one of a group of sounds that are acquired late due to their acoustic and/or articulatory properties. This is in contradiction to the position stated in Ingram (in press, a) where order of acquisition is deter…
Early Syntactic Acquisition in German: Evidence for the Modal Hypothesis
Poeppel and Wexler (1993) present the Full Competence Hypothesis, which claims that German children very early (circa age 2) acquire finiteness, verb agreement, and verb movement. They also propose the Grammatical Infinitive Hypothesis, which states that children have the option of using either a finite or nonfinite form and randomly select verbs for one or the other. The data on which these claims are based consist of 282 sentences from a German…
My Dirty Stream”: Pete Seeger, American Folk Music, and Environmental Protest
In the aftermath of World War Two, American folk music began to engage with topical concerns over the health of the environment.The nuclear arms race was the most immediately pressing focus for the protest song.Stephen O'Leary observes that the American nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945 marked an epochal division in history, in that for the first time fear of planetary destruction appeared to be matched by the technical means to carry it out."The …
Nefarious Presentism
Presentists, who believe that only present objects exist, face a problem concerning truths about the past. Presentists should (but cannot) locate truth-makers for truths about the past. What can presentists say in response? We identify two rival factions: ‘upstanding’ and ‘nefarious’ presentists. Upstanding presentists aim to meet the challenge, positing presently existing truth-makers for truths about the past; nefarious presentists aim to shirk…
Of sweatshops and subsistence: Habermas on human rights
In this paper I argue that the discourse theoretic account of human rights defended by Jürgen Habermas contains a fruitful tension that is obscured by its dominant tendency to identify rights with legal claims. This weakness in Habermas's account becomes manifest when we examine how sweatshops diminish the secure enjoyment of subsistence, which Habermas himself (in recognition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)) recognizes as a h…
Between Political Liberalism and Postnational Cosmopolitanism: Toward an Alternative Theory of Human Rights
It is well known that Rawls and Habermas propose different strategies for justifying and classifying human rights. The author argues that neither approach satisfies what he regards as threshold conditions of determinacy, rank ordering, and completeness that any enforceable system of human rights must possess. A related concern is that neither develops an adequate account of group rights, which the author argues fulfills subsidiary conditions for …
Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law
Blumenberg and the Philosophical Grounds of Historiography
A balance that you can hear: Deep ecology, serious listening and the soundscape recordings of David Dunn
The phonographic recordings of the American composer David Dunn combine conservationist advocacy with philosophical speculations on the relationship between ecology and music informed by the systems philosophy of Gregory Bateson, and the avant-garde experimentalism of composer John Cage. His album Why Do Whales and Children Sing? A Guide to Listening in Nature (1999) risks reducing the natural world to easily consumable sound bites, and thereby c…
Jakobson revisited: Some evidence from the acquisition of Polish
Transitivity in Child Language
The holophrastic nature of children's one-word utterances has long been recognized by linguists. The child will use gesture, intonation, and a single word to convey a variety of messages. Syntactic models of grammar, however, are not equipped to capture adequately this early stage of language development. Fillmore's case grammar comes closer, but is still based on the syntactic category of verb in the deep structure. It is suggested that Fillmore…
Exceptional Justice? A Discourse Ethical Contribution to the Immigrant Question
I argue that the exception must be a legitimate possibility within law as a revolutionary project, in much the same way that civil disobedience is. In this sense, the exception is not outside law if by "law" we mean not positive law as defined by extant legal documents (statutes, legislative committee reports, written judgments, etc.) but law as a living tradition consisting of both abstract norms and a concrete historical understanding of them. …
Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Democracy
Habermas on Aesthetics and Rationality: Completing the Project of Enlightenment
It is hard to imagine anyone associated with the Frankfurt School whose work, in manner of form as well as content, is so far removed from the aesthetic as that ofJiirgen Habermas. Aesthetic concerns do not occupy center stage in his critical productions as they do in the more literary oeuvres of Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and Lowenthal. Yet they are important nonetheless, as can be seen from his attempt to extricate reason from the dialectic of …
Inversion of subject NP and aux in children's questions
A Note on Word Order in Proto-Salish
The Communist Economic Challenge
Toward a theory of person deixis
The Acquisition of Questions and Its Relation to Cognitive Development in Normal and Linguistically Deviant Children: A Pilot Study
Spontaneous questions from ten normal and ten deviant children were compared to see if there were any differences between the two groups. It was hypothesized that, if deviant children suffer from syntactic rather than cognitive deficits, they would use more cognitively advanced questions (e.g., now and when) since they were all considerably older than the normal group. The results, however, showed similar usage for both groups and were taken as a…
Transitivity in Child Language
The holophrastic nature of children's one-word utterances has long been recognized by linguists. The child will use gesture, intonation, and a single word to convey a variety of messages. Syntactic models of grammar, however, are not equipped to capture adequately this early stage of language development. Fillmore's case grammar comes closer, but is still based on the syntactic category of verb in the deep structure. It is suggested that Fillmore…
The Development of Phrase Structure Rules
The development of phrase structure (PS) rules is observed from grammars written for ten children of increasing linguistic sophistication. The simplified PS rules described by Rosenbaum (1967) provïde the grammatical framework. The results suggest five stages of development, during which subject noun phrases and verb phrases become obligatory, and complements and relative clauses appear
Fronting in child phonology
This paper presents a proposed strategy of phonology based on acquisition data from two children, one French and one English. Both children showed a process of FRONTING, where the sounds in the child's words are ordered from those produced at the front of the mouth to those produced in the back. While this first appears to be an uncommon strategy, an examination of its implied universals suggests that Fronting at some more basic level may represe…
Phonological rules in young children
There are very general phonological processes which appear to operate in one form or another when any child learns a first language. This study attempts to outline and exemplify the most general of these, e.g. the reduction of consonant clusters, the deletion of unstressed syllables. In addition, the study criticizes the point of view that phonological development consists primarily of the child substituting one sound for another. Rather, phonolo…
Surface contrast in children's speech
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A Note on Word Order in Proto-Salish
Children's production and comprehension of questions
This study examined children's production and comprehension of questions, with the aim of discovering possible patterns in question acquisition. For the production study, questions were collected from 22 children aged 2; 0–3; 11. The data show a high frequency of yes-no, what , and where questions by age 2; 0. Why and how questions were infrequent but they increased with age. Who and when questions were rarely asked by children of any age. From t…
Distance and Intra-urban Spatial Variation: An Illustration of Some Methodological Problems
Inversion of subject NP and aux in children's questions
Reduplication as a strategy of phonological development
Five hypotheses are explored about the role of REDUPLICATION in phonological development. Specifically, it was postulated that children who frequently reduplicate would ( a ) use more multisyllables, ( b ) be better at maintaining adult syllable structure, and ( c ) show limited ability at final consonant production. For all children, it was further proposed that reduplication would ( d ) be used predominantly as a means to maintain a nonreduplic…
Hermeneutics and Truth
On children's homonyms
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Morphology before syntax: A case study from language acquisition
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Some possible causes of children's early word overextensions
One child's lexical development was followed from 1; 1 to 1; 7 to look for possible causes of early word overextensions. Lexical acquisition was observed for comprehension and production through the use of a parental diary and systematic language sampling. In addition, 16 nonsense words were taught in 10 experimental sessions over a two-month period to control for phonological effects. The results isolated six distinct factors behind early word o…
Individual variation and its relevance to a theory of phonological acquisition
Stoel-Gammon & Cooper (1984) have recently presented phonological analyses in this journal of three children acquiring English. Their general conclusion is that the three children are each following their own unique pattern of acquisition. This paper is a response to that conclusion. We first point out that such research needs to distinguish different possible causes of variation. We then go on to criticize the method of analysis they used, argui…
The influence of dialectal variation on phonological acquisition: A case study on the acquisition of Cantonese
The phonological acquisition of a young girl whose parents spoke two dialects of Cantonese was examined. The father's dialect had a phonological distinction between initial /l/ and /n/ which was merged into /l/ in the mother's dialect. The child was followed bi-weekly for approximately one year. The results indicate that she acquired neither the mother's nor the father's dialect. Instead, she acquired [l] and [n] as freely varying allophones of a…
Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwork, placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas. "…
The Comprehension of Pronominal Reference in Children
Years ago, Piaget (1926:121) reported the fact that children, in their spoken language, show little concern for identifying the appropriate antecedents of their pronouns. In the texts he presented, they would typically introduce one or more antecedents followed by a series of pronouns. Such examples show a simple rule of linear order whereby a pronoun needs to refer to an antecedent somewhere preceding it. Further, this rule appeared to character…
Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
The Acquisition Of Word-Initial [v]
It is a well-documented fact that word-initial [v] (or [v-]) is not acquired in English until quite late, with group data indicating around age 4;0. Recently, Locke (1983) has proposed a biological explanation for this, claiming that [v] is one of a group of sounds that are acquired late due to their acoustic and/or articulatory properties. This is in contradiction to the position stated in Ingram (in press, a) where order of acquisition is deter…
Jakobson revisited: Some evidence from the acquisition of Polish
Dworkin, Habermas, and the CLS Movement on Moral Criticism in Law
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