#758 Eli Alshanetsky: Articulating a Thought

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RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 8th 2022.
Dr. Eli Alshanetsky is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Previously, he was an Andrew W. Mellon fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. He received his PhD in philosophy from NYU. Dr. Alshanetsky's research and teaching interests are at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and cognitive science. He is the author of Articulating a Thought.

In this episode, we focus on Articulating a Thought. We start by talking about self-knowledge, how people acquire it, and how it is approached philosophically. We then get into articulation, and the reasoning behind articulating a thought. We also discuss why some thoughts are easy to articulate, while others are very hard, the limits of language, and clarity of thought.

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00:00 Intro
00:35 What is self-knowledge, and how do people acquire it?
03:30 Philosophical approaches to self-knowledge
11:12 What is articulation?
15:03 The reasoning behind articulating a thought
18:05 The implicit/explicit strategy
19:34 Why are some thoughts easy to articulate, and others very hard?
26:52 The limits of language
29:56 Clarity of thought
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Tricky conversation that's only exacerbated by a background in philosophy and and understanding of other minds. Suppose one way to boil it down is that one has an understanding of the individual limitations of disseminating information to others. Granted, I'm only speaking in terms of intentional dissemination rather articulating with fast or quick thought. Requires the audience to be understood in broader talks, and the individual to be understood in personal talks. That is, the transfer can't happen in a void. Granted again, I'm kind of use to few understanding what I'm on about. Think what wasn't really hit at is we don't all think in language, let alone do we all have an internal narrator (Forget what the technical language for it is.). Meaning some understandings are brought about in the Zen Buddhist sense of understanding. That is mastery of a subject matter. One knows at that level not only what their audience could understand but also what they'll get wrong. That doesn't however, mean they have "The Cure" to correcting the issue per se. Anyway, just commenting to comment. Got over 3 decades of reading and my own thoughts on these ends. My only real conclusion thus far is an acceptance that rhetoric can or will be taken wrong. Is what it is, that is.