Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of the Philosopher in Moira Gatens

Laurie, T

Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of the Philosopher in Moira Gatens

Laurie, T

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Citation:: Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, 2019, 30 pp. 48 - 68
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Laurie, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3453-775X	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, 2019, 30 pp. 48 - 68	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Moira Gatens poses questions that challenge the social and institutional worlds that sustain what we call philosophical thinking. This does not mean that Gatens pillories philosophy to secure polemical victories. It does mean that, drawing on Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s parallelism, Gatens does not presume that the best ideas will always prevail through philosophical argumentation, or that the battle of ideas can proceed indifferently to the embodied conditions of speech and sociability. We are invited to consider not simply whether arguments are true, but to better understand the society, community or polity for which the truth of an argument could hold force. Gatens takes philosophy outside philosophy and reinvents the role of the philosopher in the process.	en_US
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dc.title	Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of the Philosopher in Moira Gatens	en_US
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Abstract:

Moira Gatens poses questions that challenge the social and institutional worlds that sustain what we call philosophical thinking. This does not mean that Gatens pillories philosophy to secure polemical victories. It does mean that, drawing on Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s parallelism, Gatens does not presume that the best ideas will always prevail through philosophical argumentation, or that the battle of ideas can proceed indifferently to the embodied conditions of speech and sociability. We are invited to consider not simply whether arguments are true, but to better understand the society, community or polity for which the truth of an argument could hold force. Gatens takes philosophy outside philosophy and reinvents the role of the philosopher in the process.

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