TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schulz, Heiko
T1  - Changing one’s mind: Reconsidering Fisch’s idea of framework transitions in (partly) Kierkegaardian fashion
T2  - Open Philosophy
N2  - The article critically engages Menachem Fisch’s account of normative frameworks, in particular of (rational) transitions between them. I argue, first, that exposure to the normative criticism leveled at us by other human beings is indeed “capable of destabilizing normative commitment” to one’s own underlying framework beliefs and standards, as Fisch holds; however, closer scrutiny reveals that such exposure is neither sufficient nor necessary but rather accidental in this respect. Second, I will try to show that Søren Kierkegaard’s account of how people fundamentally change their mind provides resources for both a substantial critique of Fisch and a more adequate understanding of the transitions in question. The article argues, third, that Fisch’s framework model – though meaningful, in fact heuristically indispensable in and as of itself – has robust transcendental implications which as such are being ignored, if not directly denied by Fisch and, precisely by being ignored or denied, unnecessarily weaken the overall plausibility of his account. Finally, and ex post, I will address an important objection raised by some commentators.
KW  - Kierkegaard
KW  - framework transition
KW  - subjectivity
KW  - self
KW  - event
KW  - principle of charity
KW  - understanding
KW  - pre-rationality
KW  - transperspectivism
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/57702
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-577026
SN  - 2543-8875
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 750
EP  - 769
PB  - De Gruyter Poland
CY  - Warsaw
ER  -