On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary - Going the Bloody Hard Way

This book calls scholars to avoid the temptation to reduce philosophy into a normative discipline. The author argues that philosophy's main responsibility does not reside in changing the world, but in safeguarding sense and intelligibility against unfounded forms of skepticism.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Ordinariness and Philosophy's Responsibility to Intelligibility
Chapter 2: Speculating on being in the world alongside Plato and Aristotle
Chapter 3: Courting Ordinary Language with the Ideal Language Philosophers
Chapter 4: Negotiating Ordinary Experience with the Empiricists
Chapter 5: Rubbing Shoulders with Wittgenstein on Ordinary Realism
Chapter 6: Inverting the Logic of Ordinary Atheism with Flew and the New Atheists
Chapter 7: Animalizing Philosophy with Derrida and Coetzee
Conclusion: Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Randy Ramal

Summary

This book calls scholars to avoid the temptation to reduce philosophy into a normative discipline. The author argues that philosophy's main responsibility does not reside in changing the world, but in safeguarding sense and intelligibility against unfounded forms of skepticism.

Product details

• Authors: Randy Ramal
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793638809
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-880-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy of religion, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism