Robert D’Amico
Biographic Data
| ID | 5911099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D’Amico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | D’Amico |
| SIGNATURE | D’AMICO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Savage Savants
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Pp. 704
Reply to Further Defenses of Incentivization
In a previous article, we challenged the “incentivization view” held by J. P. Smit, Filip Buekens, and Stan du Plessis as failing to cover social phenomena involving strict joint actions. The authors’ response to our criticism seriously misstates our main point. We have therefore, as briefly and sharply as we can, restated the problem in this note
Alone Together: Why “Incentivization” Fails as an Account of Institutional Facts
In two articles, Smits, Buekens, and du Plessis have argued that John Searle’s account of institutional facts suffers serious flaws and should be replaced with a reductive account they call “incentivization.” We argue against their view in two ways. First, the specific flaws they find in Searle are based on misunderstandings. Second, “incentivization,” as they present it, fails as a reduction of strict collective actions and, thus, cannot account…
How Not to Save Searle: A Reply to Weber’s Reply
In response to “‘Counting As’ a Bridge Principle: Against Searle Against Social-Scientific Laws,” Elijah Weber distinguishes two sorts of physical open-endedness and claims our article appeals to the wrong sort. We clarify that Searle’s notion of physical open-endedness is neither of the notions Weber introduces, thus our original reply to Searle is not targeted by Weber’s objections. Also, Weber’s lengthy example concerning counterfeit currency …
Counting As” a Bridge Principle: Against Searle Against Social-Scientific Laws
John Searle’s argument that social-scientific laws are impossible depends on a special open-ended feature of social kinds. We demonstrate that under a noncontentious understanding of bridging principles the so-called “counts-as” relation, found in the expression “X counts as Y in (context) C,” provides a bridging principle for social kinds. If we are correct, not only are social-scientific laws possible, but the “counts as” relation might provide…
Impossible Laws
Historicism and Knowledge
D'Amico re-examines the reasons for the increasing influence of historicist arguments in modern philosophy. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy, critical theory, intellectual history
Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics
Hungarian social philosopher and literary critic Georg LukAcs (1885-1971) is one of the seminal intellectual figures of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Leon Trotsky, he is also widely recognized as the outstanding Marxist thinker aside from Marx himself. Yet, as Lewis Coser has observed, LukAcs has remained the most enigmatic figure of the modern communist movement. Why were his theories so important to modern political and …
Aids, Capitalism and Technology: A Reply to Charles Hunt; Capitalism: Destroyer of the Sugar Industry; Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Charles W. Hunt's "AIDS and Capitalist Medicine" (MR, January 1988), while a useful beginning, raises a number of critical issues to which we would like to reply.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Relativism and Conceptual Schemes
Feenberg on Lukacs
Husserl on the Foundational Structures of Natural and Cultural Sciences
The Problem of the Contingency of the World in Husserl's Phenomenology
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Conversations with Lukacs
Using the technique of prepared questions, Conversations with Lukacs is a brilliant gathering of thoughts and insights covering topics as ontology, the techniques of manipulative societies, the pitfalls of combating Stalinism with Stalinist methods, and the problems of intellectuals in advanced capitalist societies. Above all, there is the restatement of Lukacs unshaken conviction that the working class, with all the changes that have occurred in…
Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault Dominique Lecourt. Ben Brewster
Soul and Form
The Theory of the Novel
Conversations with Lukacs
Using the technique of prepared questions, Conversations with Lukacs is a brilliant gathering of thoughts and insights covering topics as ontology, the techniques of manipulative societies, the pitfalls of combating Stalinism with Stalinist methods, and the problems of intellectuals in advanced capitalist societies. Above all, there is the restatement of Lukacs unshaken conviction that the working class, with all the changes that have occurred in…
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Historicism and Knowledge
D'Amico re-examines the reasons for the increasing influence of historicist arguments in modern philosophy. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy, critical theory, intellectual history
Alone Together: Why “Incentivization” Fails as an Account of Institutional Facts
In two articles, Smits, Buekens, and du Plessis have argued that John Searle’s account of institutional facts suffers serious flaws and should be replaced with a reductive account they call “incentivization.” We argue against their view in two ways. First, the specific flaws they find in Searle are based on misunderstandings. Second, “incentivization,” as they present it, fails as a reduction of strict collective actions and, thus, cannot account…
Counting As” a Bridge Principle: Against Searle Against Social-Scientific Laws
John Searle’s argument that social-scientific laws are impossible depends on a special open-ended feature of social kinds. We demonstrate that under a noncontentious understanding of bridging principles the so-called “counts-as” relation, found in the expression “X counts as Y in (context) C,” provides a bridging principle for social kinds. If we are correct, not only are social-scientific laws possible, but the “counts as” relation might provide…
Husserl on the Foundational Structures of Natural and Cultural Sciences
Impossible Laws
Relativism and Conceptual Schemes
Soul and Form
The Theory of the Novel
Conversations with Lukacs
Using the technique of prepared questions, Conversations with Lukacs is a brilliant gathering of thoughts and insights covering topics as ontology, the techniques of manipulative societies, the pitfalls of combating Stalinism with Stalinist methods, and the problems of intellectuals in advanced capitalist societies. Above all, there is the restatement of Lukacs unshaken conviction that the working class, with all the changes that have occurred in…
Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault Dominique Lecourt. Ben Brewster
The Problem of the Contingency of the World in Husserl's Phenomenology
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Husserl on the Foundational Structures of Natural and Cultural Sciences
Feenberg on Lukacs
Aids, Capitalism and Technology: A Reply to Charles Hunt; Capitalism: Destroyer of the Sugar Industry; Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Charles W. Hunt's "AIDS and Capitalist Medicine" (MR, January 1988), while a useful beginning, raises a number of critical issues to which we would like to reply.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Relativism and Conceptual Schemes
Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics
Hungarian social philosopher and literary critic Georg LukAcs (1885-1971) is one of the seminal intellectual figures of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Leon Trotsky, he is also widely recognized as the outstanding Marxist thinker aside from Marx himself. Yet, as Lewis Coser has observed, LukAcs has remained the most enigmatic figure of the modern communist movement. Why were his theories so important to modern political and …
Historicism and Knowledge
D'Amico re-examines the reasons for the increasing influence of historicist arguments in modern philosophy. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy, critical theory, intellectual history
Impossible Laws
Counting As” a Bridge Principle: Against Searle Against Social-Scientific Laws
John Searle’s argument that social-scientific laws are impossible depends on a special open-ended feature of social kinds. We demonstrate that under a noncontentious understanding of bridging principles the so-called “counts-as” relation, found in the expression “X counts as Y in (context) C,” provides a bridging principle for social kinds. If we are correct, not only are social-scientific laws possible, but the “counts as” relation might provide…
How Not to Save Searle: A Reply to Weber’s Reply
In response to “‘Counting As’ a Bridge Principle: Against Searle Against Social-Scientific Laws,” Elijah Weber distinguishes two sorts of physical open-endedness and claims our article appeals to the wrong sort. We clarify that Searle’s notion of physical open-endedness is neither of the notions Weber introduces, thus our original reply to Searle is not targeted by Weber’s objections. Also, Weber’s lengthy example concerning counterfeit currency …
Alone Together: Why “Incentivization” Fails as an Account of Institutional Facts
In two articles, Smits, Buekens, and du Plessis have argued that John Searle’s account of institutional facts suffers serious flaws and should be replaced with a reductive account they call “incentivization.” We argue against their view in two ways. First, the specific flaws they find in Searle are based on misunderstandings. Second, “incentivization,” as they present it, fails as a reduction of strict collective actions and, thus, cannot account…
Reply to Further Defenses of Incentivization
In a previous article, we challenged the “incentivization view” held by J. P. Smit, Filip Buekens, and Stan du Plessis as failing to cover social phenomena involving strict joint actions. The authors’ response to our criticism seriously misstates our main point. We have therefore, as briefly and sharply as we can, restated the problem in this note
The Savage Savants
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Pp. 704
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Art history (2 works)