"The Space of Intelligence"

Authors

• Willem A. deVries, Unversity of New HampshireFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1870-2935

Abstract

Hegel often uses spatial metaphors to characterize what he calls “mechanical memory”.  He describes it as an “abstract space” populated by “meaningless words” that co-exist in juxtaposition to each other therein.  Space is the realm of the self-external, so it seems surprising that Hegel would employ such a notion at a relatively late stage in the dialectical investigation of intelligence, the realm of the internal.  After establishing the prevalence of spatial metaphors in Hegel’s texts dealing with mechanical memory, this essay puts forth an interpretation of Hegel’s spatial characterization of mechanical memory that draws on the notion of a “logical space of reasons” to be found in the work of Wilfrid Sellars and the so-called “Pittsburgh Hegelians”.

Department

Philosophy

Publication Date

2020

Publication Title

International Yearbook of German Idealism: Psychologie

Publisher

de Gruyter

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673692-010

Link to Full Text URL

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110673692-010/html

Recommended Citation

“The Space of Intelligence” International Yearbook of German Idealism: Psychologie. Edited by Sally Sedgwick and Dina Emundts. 2020; Pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673692-010

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by de Gruyter in International Yearbook of German Idealism: Psychologie in 2020, the Version of Record is available online: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673692-010