{"title":"A Pragmatic Approach to the Identity of Works of Art","authors":"Julie C. Van Camp","doi":"10.1353/jsp.2006.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsp.2006.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The “identity” of works of art is what makes two instances or performances the same work. Philosophers have tried to account for identity by appealing to notational systems, production histories, cultural context, or some combination of those factors. None of these approaches has been accepted as adequately accounting for the ways in which identity is actually understood in the art world, by artists, performers, composers, choreographers, audiences, historians, and critics. I propose that the identity of works of art be understood pragmatically as ways of talking and acting by the various communities of the art world.1 These are informed by notational systems, production histories, and so forth. But those approaches have been unsatisfactory.2 A pragmatic approach centers on how identity is understood by various communities through ongoing deliberative and decision-making practices,3 characterized in turn by rejection of essences and emphasis on pluralism, experience, and community. I fi rst sketch what I understand by “art world communities” and what it means for those communities to determine the identity of works of art as “ways of talking and acting.” I next outline additional elements of this approach to identity, consistent with the twentieth-century tradition of pragmatism. Next I show how a pragmatic approach explains examples in identity, including practices in copyright infringement. I then consider a recent controversy that drew the attention of several overlapping communities in art and the law. Finally, I consider problems and challenges for this approach to identity.","PeriodicalId":44744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Speculative Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsp.2006.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naturalism, Transcendental Conditions, and the Self-Discipline of Philosophical Reason","authors":"Sami Pihlstrom","doi":"10.1353/jsp.2001.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsp.2001.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Naturalism has been the received metaphilosophical view within epistemology and the philosophy of science since the 1980s. In brief, it urges that science (and our knowledge acquisition in general) is an element of the natural world along with everything else. There is no privileged, aprioristic point of view of “first philosophy” over and above our empirical science itself, although such a standpoint is still assumed, in different ways, by old-fashioned empiricists, epistemological foundationalists, Popperian critical rationalists, and many contemporary scientific realists—in short, by most traditional analytic philosophers. Instead, science must be investigated scientifically; a scientific theory of science should be our aim. This kind of naturalistic program has been defended by, among others, Ronald Giere (1988) and Richard Boyd (1992). We may also classify Arthur Fine’s (1996) “nonrealistic” or “postrealistic” and postphilosophical “natural ontological attitude” (NOA) as a species of naturalism in this sense. According to Fine, all attempts to interpret and justify science philosophically, from a higher perspective lying outside science, are in vain. n n n J S P","PeriodicalId":44744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Speculative Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsp.2001.0031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66576952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between finitude and infinity: Hegelian reason and the Pascalian heart","authors":"W. Desmond","doi":"10.5840/hsaproceedings1995123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/hsaproceedings1995123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Speculative Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71135881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workplace Democracy and Human Development","authors":"D. Ellerman","doi":"10.5325/JSPECPHIL.24.4.0333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JSPECPHIL.24.4.0333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Speculative Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5325/JSPECPHIL.24.4.0333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70855654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management and Rights Amidst Plural Worlds","authors":"Van Der Drift","doi":"10.5325/JSPECPHIL.35.1.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JSPECPHIL.35.1.0093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Speculative Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70855522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}