"The Colour Out of Space": Lovecraft on Induction

IF 0.1 3区 文学 N/A LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Kieran Setiya
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Abstract:The problem of induction is affective as well as epistemic: how ought we to feel about the limits of human cognition? This question is pursued through H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 short story, "The Colour Out of Space." Lovecraft explores the meaning of our epistemic frailty, drawing on George Santayana's Scepticism and Animal Faith. His narrative elicits inductive vertigo, the fear that our concepts fail to carve nature at the joints.
“空间之外的色彩”:洛夫克拉夫特的感应
摘要:归纳的问题是情感性的,也是认识性的:我们应该如何看待人类认知的极限?这个问题是通过H.P.洛夫克拉夫特1927年的短篇小说《太空之外的颜色》来探讨的。洛夫克拉夫特借鉴乔治·桑塔亚纳的怀疑论和动物信仰,探讨了我们认识脆弱的含义。他的叙述引发了诱导性眩晕,担心我们的概念无法在关节处雕刻出自然。
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期刊介绍: For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.
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