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01-12-2006 | Research Paper

Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of David Carr

Inventions of History

Author: Steven Crowell

Published in: Human Studies | Issue 4/2006

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David Carr is a philosopher of paradox. Given the title of his most recent book, The Paradox of Subjectivity, this might seem obvious. In fact, though, the claim is rather paradoxical. For as anyone familiar with Carr’s work knows, his thinking and writing are models of lucidity, careful reasoning, and acute phenomenological description. In style and substance it is about as far from philosophical paradox-mongering as you can get. …

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Footnotes
1
Carr extends this idea into an account of we-intentionality, to which I will return briefly at the end of this essay. See Carr (1986/1987): 281–296.
 
2
See Carr (1991) and Crowell (1998).
 
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Metadata
Title
Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of David Carr
Inventions of History
Author
Steven Crowell
Publication date
01-12-2006
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published in
Human Studies / Issue 4/2006
Print ISSN: 0163-8548
Electronic ISSN: 1572-851X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9039-8

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