When language goes on holiday: A Wittgensteinian approach to metacognitive feelings

Francesca Ervas

;Sonia Lisco

2023-01-01

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Abstract

The paper sheds new light on the role of metacognitive feelings as instances of cognitive phenomenology, recasting the problem with a Wittgensteinian approach. First, the authors discuss Arango-Muñoz’s argumentative strategy (2019) against Goldman (1993), under both a philosophical and a psychological perspective. Second, the authors challenge both the paradigm of cognitive phenomenology he criticizes, as well as the embodied perspective he proposes. Third, the authors suggest reinterpreting metacognitive feelings as acting on a double (experiential and epistemic) level, and calling attention to what is worth noticing for us and sharing with others in the Wittgensteinian experience of aspects-seeing in a specific form of life.