Reading for January: Poll

Baden December 27, 2015 at 13:26 7325 views 11 comments

As before, I've included the most recent runner up among the options. (Incidentally, the full title of the Iris Marion Young paper - which wouldn't fit in the option box - is: "Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality.")

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Ciceronianus December 28, 2015 at 16:58 #6254 0 likes

I can't wait to find out what there is. I assume there isn't much, though, as it seems Quine addresses it all in a single essay. Will it include feminine body comportment, mobility and spatiality?

Moliere December 29, 2015 at 23:39 #6420 0 likes

Reply to Ciceronianus the White Only if those nouns are a value of a variable. ;)

The Great Whatever December 31, 2015 at 00:55 #6516 0 likes

The "Throwing like a girl" one sounds interesting. I used to have a hill I would go out to and read, and a phenomenon I noticed is that, for some bizarre reason, a pair, boyfriend and girlfriend, would often come to the grassy area beneath the hill and throw a baseball around, or the boyfriend would be teaching the girlfriend how to throw one. It never struck me just how different young men and women were when they threw things before. Even I, who had never done any sports that required throwing things in my life, intuitively understood that throwing the ball the way the girls did was just somehow wrong, that I would never do it that way. Whenever this happens, the girls' throw would be a subject of gentle humor for both members of the couple, but to me it seemed more eerie than funny.

Ciceronianus December 31, 2015 at 16:51 #6540 0 likes

Reply to The Great Whatever I took a quick look at it, and it seems to be predicated on a significant distinction between our bodies and ourselves. Thus, references to what "my body" does or doesn't do, and how it impacts "me." But I merely glanced at it. It's interesting, though, to note the different ways men throw. We Americans, perhaps because we play and/or watch baseball and football, seem to me to throw differently than British men, for example (at least as shown hurling hand grenades in WWII movies).

discoii January 01, 2016 at 16:00 #6569 0 likes

I would like to switch my vote from the Anscombe to the Marion Young, since there is a tie here.

Hanover January 01, 2016 at 21:35 #6597 0 likes

Point, step, throw: the basics taught during Little League practice to boys and boys alone. That's one reason girls don't throw right.

Streetlight January 02, 2016 at 09:03 #6652 0 likes

It's Quine ahead even with discoii's change of vote - any last votes to wring out?

S January 03, 2016 at 01:29 #6714 0 likes

I still haven't read December's, but I vote for Quine. Parfit would be my second choice.

Janus January 03, 2016 at 02:13 #6717 0 likes

Quine.

The Great Whatever January 04, 2016 at 06:39 #6828 0 likes

I'm so glad the interesting paper got chosen over all that other boring crap! Quine, oh boy~ /s

discoii January 04, 2016 at 08:16 #6833 0 likes

If we want to get even deeper than 'what there is', we should just read some Heidegger after this Quine: 'on what is is'. :B