On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary

Going the Bloody Hard Way

AvRandy Ramal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Contemporary Whitehead Studies

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Beskrivning

Randy Ramal argues that philosophy’s main responsibility lies in providing intelligibility to the ordinary language of everyday life while dispelling unwarranted skepticism. Philosophers need to go the hard way to fulfill this responsibility because of the constant and dangerous temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline rather than keep it as a descriptively hermeneutical enterprise. In On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is central to Ramal’s endeavor to demonstrate the need to separate the hermeneutical responsibility of philosophy from the normative aspects of responsibility. While showing the futility of labeling Whitehead as a purely disinterested philosopher who abandons the idea that ordinariness is relevant to good philosophical thinking, Ramal frames this discussion within a larger, in-depth engagement with a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, and literary figures whose works touch on the question of the ordinary.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-04
Mått:162 x 228 x 26 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary Whitehead Studies
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793638809

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Randy Ramal is a visiting researcher at Arizona State University.

Recensioner i media

This book is a very timely reminder that philosophers must avoid practicing philosophy as a normative discipline. Everyone can and should argue for what he or she considers to be right and true and important. But this should not be confused with philosophizing. The main responsibility of philosophy lies in questions of sense and intelligibility, as Ramal argues with Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Phillips. It must be oriented to the ordinary, to the life-world in which we know from our common practice what we mean by our concepts. Whenever philosophers confuse their own rational constructions with the reality they seek to reconstruct, they commit the fallacy of logical inversion. Whitehead, Rorty, Rosen, and many others have fallen into this trap, as Ramal demonstrates in detail. His clear, wide-ranging, and well-argued book sharpens the eye for the blind alleys into which philosophy gets if it does not avoid this fallacy.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: On Ordinariness and Philosophy’s Responsibility to IntelligibilityChapter 2: Speculating on being in the world alongside Plato and AristotleChapter 3: Courting Ordinary Language with the Ideal Language PhilosophersChapter 4: Negotiating Ordinary Experience with the EmpiricistsChapter 5: Rubbing Shoulders with Wittgenstein on Ordinary Realism Chapter 6: Inverting the Logic of Ordinary Atheism with Flew and the New AtheistsChapter 7: Animalizing Philosophy with Derrida and Coetzee Conclusion: Final ThoughtsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author