Masculinities in Old Norse Literature. Eds. Gareth Lloyd Evans, Jessica Clare Hancock. Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2020, ss. 285

Racial Thinking in Old Norse Literature RACIAL THINKING IN OLD NORSE LITERATURE: THE CASE OF THE BLÁMAÐR

THERE ARE NOT mANy KIND wORDS to be said about the notion of ‘race’. In the last century alone, it has shown itself to be a way of thinking that both lacks any basis in empirical reality (montagu 1997, 121–44), and is liable to cause a great deal of human misery. But like a lot of bad ideas, it has been around for a long time. However erroneous or dangerous the notion of race may be, it is at l...

Guide to Chapter One of Gareth Evans ’ The

In this chapter Evans’ does several things. First, he introduces Frege’s semantic theory, according to which the meaningfulness of expressions in language is explained by assigning to these expressions two kinds of entities. First, a referent, the entity that the expression refers to. And second, a sense, which is glossed as a special proprietary way that someone must think of the referent if t...

Guide to Chapter Six of Gareth Evans ’ The

Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism. Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture, Delivered in Oxford on June 2, 1987

It is, as is familiar, difficult to be precise about what is involved in realism. The realist in us wants to hold to a certain sort of very general view about our place in the world, a view that, as I have put it elsewhere, mixes modesty with presumption.' On the one hand, it is supposed, modestly, that how matters stand in the world, what opinions about it are true, is settled independently of...

Guide to Chapter Seven of Gareth Evans ’ The Varieties of Reference

In this chapter Evans discusses ‘I’-ideas. They are similar to ‘here’-Ideas and ‘that’-Ideas in that they pivot on functional connections to perception and action. But they differ in key respects. First, unlike ‘that’-Ideas, the connections can be latent. And second, unlike ‘here’or ‘that-Ideas, there is only one object tracked as ‘I’, which makes the cognitive worklaod easier, but introduces i...