Logic, Syntax, and a Structural View

The Psychology of Trump's Hall of Mirrors
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-60880-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 167 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby’s computer-generated simulation, PARRY. The simulation was of a paranoid psychological state, represented in forms of the person's logic and syntax, as these would be evidenced in personal communication. Harwood Fisher uses a Structural View to highlight similarities in the logical form of the linguistic representations of Donald Trump, his avid followers (“Trumpers”), and the paranoid—referred to as “The Trio.” He demonstrates how the Structural View forms a series of logical and schematic patterns, similar to the way that content analysis can bring forth associations meanings, and concepts held in the text. Such comparisons, Fisher argues, can be used to shed light on contingencies for presenting, representing, and judging truth. Specifically, Fisher posits that the major syntactic and logical patterns that were used to produce the computer-generated “paranoid” responses in Colby’s project can be used to analyze Donald Trump’s rhetoric and his followers’ reactions to it. Ultimately, Fisher offers a new kind of structural approach for the philosophy of psychology. This novel work will appeal to students and scholars of social and cognitive psychology, psychology of personality, psychiatric classification, psycholinguistics, rhetoric, and computer science.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Harwood

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- The Structural View.- Chapter 2: Values, Features, and Heuristics of a Structural View.- Chapter 3: Reduction versus the Expanding Manifold.- Chapter 4: Development and History as Parameters of the Expanding Manifold.- Chapter 5: Metaphor, Geometric Space, and the Structural View.- Chapter 6: Logic and Schema Modalities.- Chapter 7: The Proactive SV: Logical Form, Truth, and Socio-political Analogies.- Chapter 8: The Metaphoric Float.

Über Autor(innen)

Harwood Fisher is Professor Emeritus at City College, City University of New York, USA, and author of Schema Re-Schematized (2017), Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking (2009), and The Subjective Self (2001). He researches subjective experiences as related to the logic of thinking, including logical and syntactic forms of metaphor and analogy.