Jeanne Openshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 377179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanne Openshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Openshaw |
| SIGNATURE | OPENSHAW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Grenoble Alpes |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9479-6067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A dilemma for simulationism
Generalised remembering
Recollections of our personal past are often impressionistic, not so much for lack of detail but for a certain generality of subject matter. If you’ve made a journey many times, you may ‘relive’ it through memory without reliving any specific occasion. I offer an account of this phenomenon—often labelled ‘general event memory’—that treats it as fundamentally semantic. It is, at least across many instances, the construction of an event representat…
Does singular thought have an epistemic essence
What is involved in having a singular thought about an ordinary object? On the leading epistemic view, one has this capacity if and only if one has belief-forming dispositions which would reliably enable one to get its properties right (Dickie, 2015). I first argue that Dickie’s official view entails surprising and unpalatable claims about either rationality or singular thought, before offering a precisification. Once we have reached that level o…
Perceiving objects the brain does not represent
Reference in remembering: Towards a simulationist account
(In defence of) preservationism and the previous awareness condition: What is a theory of remembering, anyway
I suggest that the theories of remembering one finds in the philosophy of memory literature are best characterised as theories principally operating at three different levels of inquiry. Simulationist views are theories of the psychofunctional process type remembering . Causalist views are theories of referential remembering. Epistemic views are theories of successful remembering. Insofar as there is conflict between these theories, it is a confl…
Perceptual capacitism: An argument for disjunctive disunity
Thinking about many
Self-ascription and the de se
This paper defends Lewis’ (Philos Rev 88:513–543, 1979a) influential treatment of de se attitudes from recent criticism to the effect that a key explanatory notion—self-ascription—goes unexplained (Cappelen and Dever in The inessential indexical, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013; Holton, in: Loewer, Schaffer (eds) The Blackwell companion to David Lewis, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 399–410, 2015). It is shown that Lewis’ treatment can be reconstru…
Home or Ashram? The Vaishnavas of Bengal
Home or Ashram? The Vaishnavas of Bengal
In theory, Indic religious traditions rigorously differentiate the realms of householder and renouncer, with movement only permitted from former to latter and only for certain individuals. The presence of castes with renouncer names (Yogis, Naths, Vaishnavas) suggests that realities on the ground may not conform to this stereotype. Using fieldwork material from West Bengal, India, this article considers connections between the Caste Vaishnavas an…
Renunciation feminised? Joint renunciation of female-male pairs in Bengali Vaishnavism
The Indic category of renunciation is generally constructed in radical opposition to that of householder/ worldly life (sam_ sāra), by actors and analysts alike. Yet, as an institution, renunciation is also traditionally modelled on householder structures. It is created through an idiom of ‘birth’ into patrilines, albeit generated through ‘guru’ rather than ‘blood’ lineages. These contrary facets of renunciation feature in the unusual Bengali Vai…
Inner Self, Outer Individual: A Bengali ‘Bāul’ Perspective
Dumont’s denial of individuality to Hindus, with the exception of renouncers of the world, has provoked a fascinating, but in many ways confusing debate on the subject of the individual and the self. The present article uses oral historical information and writings by Rāj Khyāpā, a Bengali ‘Bāul’ guru, and his followers, to highlight one of many indigenous debates about the self and the individual. Rāj and other Bāuls use the high ‘Hindu’ (or uno…
Killing' the Guru: Anti-hierarchical tendencies of 'Bāuls' of Bengal1
The conferral of immense symbolic importance on so-called 'Bāuls' by educated, urban Bengalis from the end of the 19th century derives from and has contributed to various kinds of essentialisation of the category 'bāul'. Assumptions of uniformity and continuity have resulted in a scholarly over-emphasis on the role of the institutional guru. It is argued here that the authority of this guru is far from absolute, even in theory. It is undermined b…
The Radicalism of Tagore and the Bauls of Bengali
The Web of Deceit: Challenges to Hindu and Muslim 'Orthodoxies' by 'Bāuls' of Bengal
Many so-called ‘Bāuls’ of Bengal identify themselves in opposition to more conventionally religious Hindus and Muslims. Specifically they identify themselves as being in ‘barttamān’, a category basically constructed in opposition to another: ‘anumān’. An ideal of self-dependence based on one's own knowledge (barttamān) is opposed to others’ knowledge or conjecture (anumān). The latter is epitomised by Hindu or Muslim ‘orthopraxy’ or ‘orthodoxy’, …
The Madness of Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
Killing' the Guru: Anti-hierarchical tendencies of 'Bāuls' of Bengal1
The conferral of immense symbolic importance on so-called 'Bāuls' by educated, urban Bengalis from the end of the 19th century derives from and has contributed to various kinds of essentialisation of the category 'bāul'. Assumptions of uniformity and continuity have resulted in a scholarly over-emphasis on the role of the institutional guru. It is argued here that the authority of this guru is far from absolute, even in theory. It is undermined b…
The Web of Deceit: Challenges to Hindu and Muslim 'Orthodoxies' by 'Bāuls' of Bengal
Many so-called ‘Bāuls’ of Bengal identify themselves in opposition to more conventionally religious Hindus and Muslims. Specifically they identify themselves as being in ‘barttamān’, a category basically constructed in opposition to another: ‘anumān’. An ideal of self-dependence based on one's own knowledge (barttamān) is opposed to others’ knowledge or conjecture (anumān). The latter is epitomised by Hindu or Muslim ‘orthopraxy’ or ‘orthodoxy’, …
(In defence of) preservationism and the previous awareness condition: What is a theory of remembering, anyway
I suggest that the theories of remembering one finds in the philosophy of memory literature are best characterised as theories principally operating at three different levels of inquiry. Simulationist views are theories of the psychofunctional process type remembering . Causalist views are theories of referential remembering. Epistemic views are theories of successful remembering. Insofar as there is conflict between these theories, it is a confl…
Renunciation feminised? Joint renunciation of female-male pairs in Bengali Vaishnavism
The Indic category of renunciation is generally constructed in radical opposition to that of householder/ worldly life (sam_ sāra), by actors and analysts alike. Yet, as an institution, renunciation is also traditionally modelled on householder structures. It is created through an idiom of ‘birth’ into patrilines, albeit generated through ‘guru’ rather than ‘blood’ lineages. These contrary facets of renunciation feature in the unusual Bengali Vai…
The Radicalism of Tagore and the Bauls of Bengali
Inner Self, Outer Individual: A Bengali ‘Bāul’ Perspective
Dumont’s denial of individuality to Hindus, with the exception of renouncers of the world, has provoked a fascinating, but in many ways confusing debate on the subject of the individual and the self. The present article uses oral historical information and writings by Rāj Khyāpā, a Bengali ‘Bāul’ guru, and his followers, to highlight one of many indigenous debates about the self and the individual. Rāj and other Bāuls use the high ‘Hindu’ (or uno…
Reference in remembering: Towards a simulationist account
Thinking about many
Self-ascription and the de se
This paper defends Lewis’ (Philos Rev 88:513–543, 1979a) influential treatment of de se attitudes from recent criticism to the effect that a key explanatory notion—self-ascription—goes unexplained (Cappelen and Dever in The inessential indexical, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013; Holton, in: Loewer, Schaffer (eds) The Blackwell companion to David Lewis, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 399–410, 2015). It is shown that Lewis’ treatment can be reconstru…
Home or Ashram? The Vaishnavas of Bengal
In theory, Indic religious traditions rigorously differentiate the realms of householder and renouncer, with movement only permitted from former to latter and only for certain individuals. The presence of castes with renouncer names (Yogis, Naths, Vaishnavas) suggests that realities on the ground may not conform to this stereotype. Using fieldwork material from West Bengal, India, this article considers connections between the Caste Vaishnavas an…
The Madness of Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
The Madness of Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
The Radicalism of Tagore and the Bauls of Bengali
The Web of Deceit: Challenges to Hindu and Muslim 'Orthodoxies' by 'Bāuls' of Bengal
Many so-called ‘Bāuls’ of Bengal identify themselves in opposition to more conventionally religious Hindus and Muslims. Specifically they identify themselves as being in ‘barttamān’, a category basically constructed in opposition to another: ‘anumān’. An ideal of self-dependence based on one's own knowledge (barttamān) is opposed to others’ knowledge or conjecture (anumān). The latter is epitomised by Hindu or Muslim ‘orthopraxy’ or ‘orthodoxy’, …
Killing' the Guru: Anti-hierarchical tendencies of 'Bāuls' of Bengal1
The conferral of immense symbolic importance on so-called 'Bāuls' by educated, urban Bengalis from the end of the 19th century derives from and has contributed to various kinds of essentialisation of the category 'bāul'. Assumptions of uniformity and continuity have resulted in a scholarly over-emphasis on the role of the institutional guru. It is argued here that the authority of this guru is far from absolute, even in theory. It is undermined b…
Inner Self, Outer Individual: A Bengali ‘Bāul’ Perspective
Dumont’s denial of individuality to Hindus, with the exception of renouncers of the world, has provoked a fascinating, but in many ways confusing debate on the subject of the individual and the self. The present article uses oral historical information and writings by Rāj Khyāpā, a Bengali ‘Bāul’ guru, and his followers, to highlight one of many indigenous debates about the self and the individual. Rāj and other Bāuls use the high ‘Hindu’ (or uno…
Home or Ashram? The Vaishnavas of Bengal
Home or Ashram? The Vaishnavas of Bengal
In theory, Indic religious traditions rigorously differentiate the realms of householder and renouncer, with movement only permitted from former to latter and only for certain individuals. The presence of castes with renouncer names (Yogis, Naths, Vaishnavas) suggests that realities on the ground may not conform to this stereotype. Using fieldwork material from West Bengal, India, this article considers connections between the Caste Vaishnavas an…
Renunciation feminised? Joint renunciation of female-male pairs in Bengali Vaishnavism
The Indic category of renunciation is generally constructed in radical opposition to that of householder/ worldly life (sam_ sāra), by actors and analysts alike. Yet, as an institution, renunciation is also traditionally modelled on householder structures. It is created through an idiom of ‘birth’ into patrilines, albeit generated through ‘guru’ rather than ‘blood’ lineages. These contrary facets of renunciation feature in the unusual Bengali Vai…
Self-ascription and the de se
This paper defends Lewis’ (Philos Rev 88:513–543, 1979a) influential treatment of de se attitudes from recent criticism to the effect that a key explanatory notion—self-ascription—goes unexplained (Cappelen and Dever in The inessential indexical, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013; Holton, in: Loewer, Schaffer (eds) The Blackwell companion to David Lewis, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 399–410, 2015). It is shown that Lewis’ treatment can be reconstru…
Thinking about many
Perceptual capacitism: An argument for disjunctive disunity
(In defence of) preservationism and the previous awareness condition: What is a theory of remembering, anyway
I suggest that the theories of remembering one finds in the philosophy of memory literature are best characterised as theories principally operating at three different levels of inquiry. Simulationist views are theories of the psychofunctional process type remembering . Causalist views are theories of referential remembering. Epistemic views are theories of successful remembering. Insofar as there is conflict between these theories, it is a confl…
Perceiving objects the brain does not represent
Reference in remembering: Towards a simulationist account
Does singular thought have an epistemic essence
What is involved in having a singular thought about an ordinary object? On the leading epistemic view, one has this capacity if and only if one has belief-forming dispositions which would reliably enable one to get its properties right (Dickie, 2015). I first argue that Dickie’s official view entails surprising and unpalatable claims about either rationality or singular thought, before offering a precisification. Once we have reached that level o…
A dilemma for simulationism
Generalised remembering
Recollections of our personal past are often impressionistic, not so much for lack of detail but for a certain generality of subject matter. If you’ve made a journey many times, you may ‘relive’ it through memory without reliving any specific occasion. I offer an account of this phenomenon—often labelled ‘general event memory’—that treats it as fundamentally semantic. It is, at least across many instances, the construction of an event representat…
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