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Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
70 - Elisabeth Camp: Emily Dickinson, Figurative Language, and Representation
3 hour 10 minutes Posted Apr 1, 2023 at 3:30 pm.
Introduction
Liz’s Interest in Figurative Language
Emily Dickinson’s “The first Day’s Night had come”
Emily Dickinson’s “This World is not Conclusion”
Mary’s Room as a Literary Creation
Imaginative Resistance
Frames as Representational Devices
Liz’s Taste in Problems
Speech Acts
John Searle
Insinuation
Sarcasm
Metaphors
Slurs
Metaphors in Science
Maps and Sentences
Animal Minds and Mental Language
Cognitive Science at Rutgers
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Elisabeth Camp is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, where she works on the philosophy of language, mind, and aesthetics. As she puts it, her research “focuses on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit standard propositional models.” Liz and Robinson spend the first third of their conversation discussing the poetry of Emily Dickinson and its connections to philosophy. They then move on to the substantial corpus of Liz’s work, touching on frames—or representational devices—various difficult-to-analyze speech acts and devices like insinuation and metaphor, and the semantics of maps. Keep up with Liz and her research at http://www.elisabethcamp.org.
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