Philosophic Prophecy

Schliesser, Eric

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“…Elsewhere I have argued that "Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe" (republished in LWM) is significant to the sociological and conceptual founding of analytic philosophy. See Schliesser (2013). 5 See also the first sentence of the 1947 review of Morgenthau's Scientific Man vs Power Politics: "The defeat of human aspirations following profound social upheavals is frequently accompanied by loss of confidence in rational methods as ways of resolving the problems of society."…”

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Philosophy of Science as First Philosophy: The Liberal Polemics of Ernest Nagel

Schliesser

2021

Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science

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This chapter explores Nagel's polemics. It shows these have a two-fold character: (i) to defend liberal civilization against all kinds of enemies. And (ii) to defend what he calls 'contextual naturalism.' And the chapter shows that (i-ii) reinforce each other and undermine alternative political and philosophical programs. The chapter's argument responds to an influential argument by George Reisch that Nagel's professional stance represents a kind of disciplinary retreat from politics. In order to respond to Reisch the relationship between Nagel's philosophy of science and his politics is explored and this chapter shows how both are anchored in what Nagel once called his 'contextual naturalism'-a metaphysics that resists imposing the unity of the world and treats all entities as embedded in a wider network of entities. Part of the argument traces out how Nagel's views on responsible speech and professionalism reflect a distinct understanding of the political role of philosophers of science.

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Philosophy of Science as First Philosophy: The Liberal Polemics of Ernest Nagel

Schliesser

2021

Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science

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“…Now narrative sentences, we saw, describe an event in terms of a later one, thereby implying but not telling, a narrative. A narrative, in turn, presents a temporally ordered sequence of 18 On independent grounds this appears to be the basic position also arrived at under various guises in, e.g., Beaney (2013), Carus (2013), Reck (2013), Schliesser (2013). Given my historical aim I can rest with noting this broad convergence.. 19 See Carnap, Hahn, Neurath (1929) and Neurath (1936), but also Haller (1977) and (1988).…”

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“…2 This was noted in passing in Uebel (2010). To be sure, notwithstanding the neglect of philosophy of history as a disciplinary object, some relevant issues-like contextualism/antiquarianism v. presentism/appropriationism-have been discussed by historians of philosophy of science and analytical philosophy generally in recent years: see, e.g., Garber (2005), Hatfield (2005), Beaney (2013), Carus (2013), Kremer (2013), Reck (2013), Schliesser (2013). 3 It would be a feeble response to justify this state of affairs by the supposedly problematic state of history as a science; for the argument, au contraire, that history forms an essential part of all science, see Creath (2010).…”

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Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science

Uebel¹

2017

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History

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Philosophy of history and history of philosophy of science make for an interesting case of "mutual containment": the former is an object of inquiry for the latter and the latter is subject to the demands of the former. This paper discusses a seminal turn in past philosophy of history with an eye to the practice of historians of philosophy of science. The narrative turn by Danto and Mink represents both a liberation for historians and a new challenge to the objectivity of their findings. I will claim that good sense can be made of "working historical veins of possibility" (contrary to how the phrase was originally intended) and that already Danto and Mink provided materials (though they did not quite advertize them as such) to assuage fears of a constructivist free-for-all.

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“…But when philosophers do understand their own activity as uncovering facts, these tend to be quite general (see Paul on metaphysics) or aimed at the transcendental ground of experience (for example, in phenomenology). Some philosophical projects are aimed at developing concepts that make (possible) experiences more visible and easier communicable to others (Deleuze and Guattari ; Schliesser ).…”

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Evaluating Philosophy as Exploratory Research

Langhe¹,

Schliesser

2017

Metaphilosophy

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This article addresses the question how philosophy should be evaluated in a research‐grant funding environment. It offers a new conception of philosophy that is inclusive and builds on familiar elements of professional, philosophical practice. Philosophy systematically questions the questions we ask, the concepts we use, and the values we hold. Its product is therefore rarely conclusive but can be embodied in everything we do. This is typical of explorative research and differentiates it from exploitative research, which constitutes the bulk of funded research activity. This article argues that exploratory research is crucial for long‐term progress and requires a distinct evaluative regime.

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Philosophic Prophecy

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Philosophy of Science as First Philosophy: The Liberal Polemics of Ernest Nagel

Philosophy of Science as First Philosophy: The Liberal Polemics of Ernest Nagel

Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science

Evaluating Philosophy as Exploratory Research

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