The ten-year debate on the mind-body problem offers the language sciences the opportunity to start playing a fundamental philosophical and political role again. Specifically, a series of empirical data and theoretical consequences from that set of disciplines that make up the cognitive sciences today have brought back issues that have remained excluded or on the margins of nineteenth-twentieth-century linguistics at the center of reflection. This means that they reopen the fascinating discussion on the relationship between physique and moral. It is, in fact, a complex question that was at the center of the glorious Enlightenment and the linguistic philosophy that characterized it. Then as now, a fundamental contribution is provided by two philosophers who have valued the role of the “doing of the body” in the constitution of cognition and language: Condillac and Maine de Biran.
Nel corso del recente dibattito relativo al mind-body problem le scienze del linguaggio vivono la possibilità di ricominciare a svolgere un fondamentale ruolo filosofico e politico. Specificamente, una serie di dati empirici e conseguenze teoriche provenienti da quell’insieme di discipline che costituiscono oggi le scienze cognitive, hanno riportato al centro della riflessione questioni rimaste escluse o ai margini della linguistica otto-novecentesca. Questo vuol dire che esse riaprono l’affascinate discussione relativa ai rapporti tra physique e moral per come essa è stata affrontata nel corso della gloriosa congiuntura storico-filosofica rappresentata dall’affermarsi dell’Illuminismo e della filosofia linguistica che lo ha caratterizzato. In questo rinnovato quadro teorico un contributo fondamentale è fornito da due dei più significativi filosofi del XVIII secolo sul piano del dibattito biolinguistico e biopolitico dell’epoca: Condillac e Maine de Biran.
Parole disarmate. Sulla natura impegnata del linguaggio
D. Chirico'
2021-01-01
Abstract
The ten-year debate on the mind-body problem offers the language sciences the opportunity to start playing a fundamental philosophical and political role again. Specifically, a series of empirical data and theoretical consequences from that set of disciplines that make up the cognitive sciences today have brought back issues that have remained excluded or on the margins of nineteenth-twentieth-century linguistics at the center of reflection. This means that they reopen the fascinating discussion on the relationship between physique and moral. It is, in fact, a complex question that was at the center of the glorious Enlightenment and the linguistic philosophy that characterized it. Then as now, a fundamental contribution is provided by two philosophers who have valued the role of the “doing of the body” in the constitution of cognition and language: Condillac and Maine de Biran.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.