Background
Fogelin, Robert John was born on June 24, 1932 in Congers, New York, United States. Son of Carl A. and Florence (Sandberg) Fogelin.
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Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
(This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is ...)
This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primarily found in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, restates them in a modern idiom, and then asks whether any contemporary theory of knowledge meets the challenges they raise. The first part, entitled "Gettier and the Problem of Knowledge," attempts to rescue our ordinary concept of knowledge from those philosophers who have assigned burdens to it that it cannot bear. Properly understood, Fogelin shows that the concept of knowledge is unproblematic. The second part of this study, called "Agrippa and the Problem of Justification," examines Agrippa's contribution to Pyrrhonism, a systematic reduction of its procedures which came to be known as the "Five Modes Leading to the Suspension of Belief." These modes present a completely general procedure for refuting any claim a dogmatist might make. Though largely unnoticed, there is, according to Fogelin, an uncanny resemblance between problems posed by Agrippa's "Five Modes" and those that contemporary epistemologists address under the heading of a theory of justification. Fogelin examines the strongest contemporary theories of justification--in both foundationalist and anti-foundationalist forms. The conclusion is that recent philosophical writings on justification have made no significant progress in responding to the Pyrrhonian problems these writings have addressed.
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Evidence and Meaning
( Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of...)
Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of some further judgement, choice or action. The first part of the study is concerned with the role of warrant statements in theoretical discourse; while the second part concerns their role in practical discourse. Also examined are necessity, probability, knowing, seeing and the complex of terms which allow us to introduce an argumentative structure into discourse.
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Evidence and Meaning: Studies in Analytic Philosophy
( Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of...)
Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of some further judgement, choice or action. The first part of the study is concerned with the role of warrant statements in theoretical discourse; while the second part concerns their role in practical discourse. Also examined are necessity, probability, knowing, seeing and the complex of terms which allow us to introduce an argumentative structure into discourse.
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Philosophical Interpretations
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Robert Fogelin here collects fifteen of his essays, organized around the theme of interpreting philosophical texts. The essays place particular emphasis on understanding the argumentative or dialectical role that passages play in the specific context in which they occur. The somewhat surprising result of taking this principle seriously is that certain traditional, well-worked texts are given a radical re-interpretation. Throughout the essays reprinted here, Fogelin argues that, when carefully read, the philosophical position under consideration has more merit than commonly believed. Included are essays dealing with texts from the works of Plato, Aquinas, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Price, Hamilton, and Wittgenstein.
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Figuratively Speaking: Revised Edition
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In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J. Fogelin examines figures of speech that concern meaning--irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others--to show how they work and to explain their attraction. Building on the ideas of Grice and Tversky, Fogelin contends that figurative language derives its power from its insistence that the reader participate in the text, looking beyond the literal meaning of the figurative language to the meanings that are implied. With examples ranging from Shakespeare, John Donne, and Jane Austen to e.e. cummings, Bessie Smith, and Monty Python, Fogelin demonstrates that the intellectual and aesthetic force of figurative language is derived from the opportunity it provides for unlimited elaboration. Fogelin presents a modern restatement of the view, first put forward by Aristotle, that metaphors are to be treated as elliptical similes. He then offers a detailed defense of this "comparativist" view of metaphors in response to criticisms that have been brought against it by a series of eminent philosophers. This new edition is updated to reflect more recent work on the topic and will interest philosophers, linguists, and literary theorists.
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Figuratively Speaking
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Evidence and Meaning Studies in Analytic Philosophy
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- Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification by Robert J. Fogelin (1994-09-22) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Evidence and Meaning: Studies in Analytic Philosophy by Robert J Fogelin (2013-04-11)
- Figuratively Speaking : Revised Edition: Revised Edition by Robert J. Fogelin (2011-02-24)
- Philosophical Interpretations by Robert J. Fogelin (1992-01-30) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
Robert John Fogelin
Edit ProfileEpistemologist philosopher of language
Education
Bachelor, University Rochester, 1955. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1960.
Career
Teacher Pomona College, 1958-1966. From associate professor to professor Yale University, 1966-1980. Professor philosophy, Sherman Fairchild professor in humanities Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, since 1980.
Visiting professor University California, Santa Barbara, 1977, University California, Berkeley, 1984, 91, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. Seminar leader National Endowment of the Humanities, 1981. Lecturer summer institute on Hume, National Institutes of Health, 1990.
Member selection committee Mellon graduate fellowships American Council of Learned Society, National Endowment of the Humanities and Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize. Member executive committee American Philosophical Association.
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Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
(This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is ...)
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Philosophical Interpretations
(Robert Fogelin here collects fifteen of his essays, organ...)
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Figuratively Speaking: Revised Edition
(In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robe...)
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Evidence and Meaning
( Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of...)
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Evidence and Meaning: Studies in Analytic Philosophy
( Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of...)
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Figuratively Speaking
(Book by Fogelin, Robert J.)
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Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification by Robert J. Fogelin (1994-09-22)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Philosophical Interpretations by Robert J. Fogelin (1992-01-30)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Evidence and Meaning: Studies in Analytic Philosophy by Robert J Fogelin (2013-04-11)
- Figuratively Speaking : Revised Edition: Revised Edition by Robert J. Fogelin (2011-02-24)
- Evidence and Meaning Studies in Analytic Philosophy
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Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
Views
Fogelin is the author of an influential book on Wittgenstein, notable mainly for its lucid account pf the doctrines set forth in the Tractatus and for its analysis of Wittgenstein’s considerations concerning what it is to follow a rule. He has presented a neo-Aristotelian account °f figurative meaning within a minimal Gricean framework, stressing the speech-act aspect of figurative prediction: and ‘figurative comparisons’. He defends a ‘comparativist’ view of metaphors.
Membership
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Florence Clay. Children: Eric, John, Lars.
