The problem of limit concepts in Habermas: toward a cognitive approach to the cultural embodiment of reason

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dc.contributor.authorStrydom, Piet
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-25T10:10:10Z
dc.date.available2019-02-25T10:10:10Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-02-25T09:59:05Z
dc.description.abstractThis essay deals with Habermas’ concept of truth in his late theoretical philosophy. Assuming his suggestive yet highly inspiring inauguration of a cognitive turn in Critical Theory, it probes his use of the notion of limit concept against the background of the tradition of thought from which it originally derives with the intention of identifying the notion’s potential for taking this promising departure further. It brings to the fore a number of issues in his late writings that reveal the presence of what may be considered the problem of limit concepts in his thought. For present purposes, these issues are located in two areas: Habermas’ revision of his long-held concept of truth and the related criticism of Peirce; and his account of the role of limit concepts like truth and warranted assertibility or rational acceptability in processes of discursive justification. The analysis finds that there is a structural deficit in his presentation that could be filled by cognitively conceived cultural structures that not only correspond to the major types of limit concepts, but also answer to his undeveloped vision of the ‘cultural embodiment of reason’.en
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dc.identifier.citationStrydom, P. (2018) 'The problem of limit concepts in Habermas: toward a cognitive approach to the cultural embodiment of reason', Philosophical Inquiry, 42(1-2), pp. 168-189. doi:10.5840/philinquiry2018421/29en
dc.identifier.doi10.5840/philinquiry2018421/29
dc.identifier.endpage189en
dc.identifier.issn1105-235X
dc.identifier.issn2163-3215
dc.identifier.issued1-2en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhilosophical Inquiryen
dc.identifier.startpage168en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7533
dc.identifier.volume42en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPhilosophy Documentation Centeren
dc.relation.urihttps://www.pdcnet.org/philinquiry/content/philinquiry_2018_0042_0001_0168_0189
dc.rights© 2018, Philosophy Documentation Center. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectAristotleen
dc.subjectCognitive turnen
dc.subjectCritical Theoryen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectHabermasen
dc.subjectJustificationen
dc.subjectKanten
dc.subjectLimit concepten
dc.subjectPeirceen
dc.subjectTruthen
dc.titleThe problem of limit concepts in Habermas: toward a cognitive approach to the cultural embodiment of reasonen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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