Social Meaning and Philosophical Method
There are special challenges in writing a Presidential Address: you want to address a very broad group of philosophers with knowledge and abilities that far exceed your own, and you want to say something that will be as engaging as possible. Philosophers have addressed a great many issues, with diff...
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| author | Haslanger, Sally |
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| description | There are special challenges in writing a Presidential Address: you want to address a very broad group of philosophers with knowledge and abilities that far exceed your own, and you want to say something that will be as engaging as possible. Philosophers have addressed a great many issues, with different methods, and I want there to be space in our discipline for all of them. I myself love arcane philosophical topics – put me in a world where I could spend my time pouring over Aristotle’s Metaphysics and I’d be happy – and I believe that philosophy yields knowledge and that is intrinsically valuable. I also love kinds of philosophy that many would not regard as philosophy at all: philosophy as it emerges in thinking about personal and family issues, philosophy in the context of political activism, and philosophy that is inextricable from empirical research. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/970492022-09-29T16:34:55Z Social Meaning and Philosophical Method Haslanger, Sally Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Haslanger, Sally Haslanger, Sally There are special challenges in writing a Presidential Address: you want to address a very broad group of philosophers with knowledge and abilities that far exceed your own, and you want to say something that will be as engaging as possible. Philosophers have addressed a great many issues, with different methods, and I want there to be space in our discipline for all of them. I myself love arcane philosophical topics – put me in a world where I could spend my time pouring over Aristotle’s Metaphysics and I’d be happy – and I believe that philosophy yields knowledge and that is intrinsically valuable. I also love kinds of philosophy that many would not regard as philosophy at all: philosophy as it emerges in thinking about personal and family issues, philosophy in the context of political activism, and philosophy that is inextricable from empirical research. 2015-05-21T14:38:31Z 2015-05-21T14:38:31Z 2013-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97049 Haslanger, Sally. "Social Meaning and Philosophical Method." American Philosophical Association 110th Eastern Division Annual Meeting (December 2013). en_US http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.apaonline.org/resource/resmgr/eastern2013/e2013_meeting_program.pdf American Philosophical Association 110th Eastern Division Annual Meeting Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Philosophical Association Haslanger |
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