| Titlu: | Cats and categories — reply to Teubert |
| Autor: | Alison Sealey |
| Publicația: | Language and Dialogue, 4 (2), Secțiunea Discussion article, p. 299-321 |
| p-ISSN: | 2210-4119 |
| e-ISSN: | 2210-4127 |
| Editura: | John Benjamins |
| Locul: | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
| Anul: | 2014 |
| Rezumat: | This paper is a response to the discussion article in Language and Dialogue 3:2 by Wolfgang Teubert, “Was there a cat in the garden? Knowledge between discourse and the monadic self.” Teubert deals there with a number of themes, including a discussion of some philosophical issues raised by Roy Harris and Martin Heidegger. In my response, I am less concerned with those aspects of the article than with the claims made by Teubert about the contrasts between humans and other animals. I respond to Teubert’s position on the status and origins of categories of animals from a realist perspective, with reference to evidence from the natural sciences and anthropology. I suggest that Teubert’s thesis rests on a number of errors, including an over-estimation of the power of discourse, an under-estimation of the range of sensory and semiotic perception available to different kinds of creatures, and a lack of attention to contemporary developments in relevant ethological research. |
| Cuvinte-cheie: | realism, ethology, taxonomies, semiotics, discursive reductionism |
| Limba: | engleză |
| Linkuri: |  pdf |
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