A meaning holistic (dis)solution of subject–object dualism – its implications for the human sciences

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ID12220882
AuthorsTero Piiroinen (0000-0002-6560-5428, University of Turku, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume31
Issue3
Pages64-82
Publication date2018-06-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0952695117752015
OpenAlexW2806607024
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited36

This article presents and analyses a social-practice contextualist version of meaning holism, whose main root lies in American pragmatism. Proposing that beliefs depend on systems of language-use in social practices, which involve communities of people and worldly objects, such meaning holism effectively breaks down the Enlightenment tradition’s philosophical subject–object dualism (and scepticism). It also opens the human mind up for empirical research – in a ‘sociologizing’, ‘anthropologizing’ and ‘historicizing’ vein. The article discusses the implications of this approach for the human sciences, for instance certain parallel developments in anthropology and archaeology

Dualism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Holism · Human science · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Pragmatism · Skepticism · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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