Paul B Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 975956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul B Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul B |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neuroscience, Narrative, and Narratology
Cognitive narratology needs a neuroscientifically sound understanding of language. This essay lays out a neurobiological model of narrative that explains how stories arise from and set in motion fundamental neuronal and cortical processes, and it then asks how the aims and methods of narratology should be aligned with what we know about language and the brain. The formalist goal of identifying orderly, universal structures of mind, language, and …
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
In Defense of Reading
Suspicion of reading as a lived experience is a consequence of the rhetorical success of a few key arguments that together have defined a critical landscape dominated by various forms of contextualism. Where the contextualist consensus prevails, reading is tacitly or explicitly regarded as an epiphenomenon, inasmuch as the real locus of meaning-creation is elsewhere. The essay analyzes three core contextualist doctrines (about consciousness, hist…
Reports of the Death of the Sociology of Science Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Selon les histoires, la sociologie de la science a été complètement remplacée par ces écoles de pensées : la sociologie de connaissance scientifique (SCS), les études sociales de la science, et l'épistémologie sociale. Au minimum, ces écoles de pensées sont considérées comme ayant réussi à dominer la sociologie de la science. Ici nous présenterons des données démontrant que les rapports au sujet de la mort de la sociologie de la science ont été f…
Two Cheers for Tolerance
Two Cheers for Tolerance:E. M. Forster's Ironic Liberalism and the Indirections of Style Paul B. Armstrong (bio) Tolerance is a defining value of liberalism, but it is also a nagging vulnerability and an embarrassment, as critics and defenders of liberalism both recognize. Liberals call tolerance "elusive," "difficult," "unstable," "contradictory," and even "impossible," but they nevertheless regard toleration as an indispensable practice not onl…
Randall Collins, Violence
I was recently at a local burger shop when two strangers started to argue about their place in the queue.Their tones escalated, one swore at the other, tension mounted and although I wondered whether violence might ensue, it did not.Randall Collins's newest book, Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory, asserts that only a small portion of the population is involved in violence and an even smaller percentage is actually competent at it.Collins argu…
The Politics of Play
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
History and Epistemology
ANY AMERICAN CRITICS have begun to view history as a way out of the impasses of epistemology. They point out that theoretical reflection has not been able to devise clear, indisputable procedures for producing correct interpretations. Conflict still rages about such basic issues as whether literary works have an autonomous existence or depend radically in their very meaning and structure on how we construe them. These undecidable questions can be…
The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism
The Phenomenology of Henry James
Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's theory of consciousness and existentialism's analyses of the lived world in relation to James's fascination with consciousness and what is commonly c…
In Defense of Reading
Suspicion of reading as a lived experience is a consequence of the rhetorical success of a few key arguments that together have defined a critical landscape dominated by various forms of contextualism. Where the contextualist consensus prevails, reading is tacitly or explicitly regarded as an epiphenomenon, inasmuch as the real locus of meaning-creation is elsewhere. The essay analyzes three core contextualist doctrines (about consciousness, hist…
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
The Politics of Play
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
The Hermeneutics of Literary Impressionism
The Phenomenology of Henry James
Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's theory of consciousness and existentialism's analyses of the lived world in relation to James's fascination with consciousness and what is commonly c…
History and Epistemology
ANY AMERICAN CRITICS have begun to view history as a way out of the impasses of epistemology. They point out that theoretical reflection has not been able to devise clear, indisputable procedures for producing correct interpretations. Conflict still rages about such basic issues as whether literary works have an autonomous existence or depend radically in their very meaning and structure on how we construe them. These undecidable questions can be…
The Politics of Play
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Randall Collins, Violence
I was recently at a local burger shop when two strangers started to argue about their place in the queue.Their tones escalated, one swore at the other, tension mounted and although I wondered whether violence might ensue, it did not.Randall Collins's newest book, Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory, asserts that only a small portion of the population is involved in violence and an even smaller percentage is actually competent at it.Collins argu…
Two Cheers for Tolerance
Two Cheers for Tolerance:E. M. Forster's Ironic Liberalism and the Indirections of Style Paul B. Armstrong (bio) Tolerance is a defining value of liberalism, but it is also a nagging vulnerability and an embarrassment, as critics and defenders of liberalism both recognize. Liberals call tolerance "elusive," "difficult," "unstable," "contradictory," and even "impossible," but they nevertheless regard toleration as an indispensable practice not onl…
Reports of the Death of the Sociology of Science Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Selon les histoires, la sociologie de la science a été complètement remplacée par ces écoles de pensées : la sociologie de connaissance scientifique (SCS), les études sociales de la science, et l'épistémologie sociale. Au minimum, ces écoles de pensées sont considérées comme ayant réussi à dominer la sociologie de la science. Ici nous présenterons des données démontrant que les rapports au sujet de la mort de la sociologie de la science ont été f…
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
In Defense of Reading
Suspicion of reading as a lived experience is a consequence of the rhetorical success of a few key arguments that together have defined a critical landscape dominated by various forms of contextualism. Where the contextualist consensus prevails, reading is tacitly or explicitly regarded as an epiphenomenon, inasmuch as the real locus of meaning-creation is elsewhere. The essay analyzes three core contextualist doctrines (about consciousness, hist…
Neuroscience, Narrative, and Narratology
Cognitive narratology needs a neuroscientifically sound understanding of language. This essay lays out a neurobiological model of narrative that explains how stories arise from and set in motion fundamental neuronal and cortical processes, and it then asks how the aims and methods of narratology should be aligned with what we know about language and the brain. The formalist goal of identifying orderly, universal structures of mind, language, and …
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works)