Research Catalog

Title

The practical origins of ideas : genealogy as conceptual reverse-engineering / Matthieu Queloz.

Author

Queloz, Matthieu

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xii, 281 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In The Practical Origins of Ideas Matthieu Queloz presents a philosophical method designed to answer such questions: the method of pragmatic genealogy. 0Pragmatic genealogies are partly fictional, partly historical narratives exploring what might have driven us to develop certain ideas in order to discover what these do for us. The book uncovers an under-appreciated tradition of pragmatic genealogy which cuts across the analytic-continental divide, running from the state-of-nature stories of David Hume and the early genealogies of Friedrich Nietzsche to recent work in analytic philosophy by Edward Craig, Bernard Williams, and Miranda Fricker.0However, these genealogies combine fictionalizing and historicizing in ways that even philosophers sympathetic to the use of state-of-nature fictions or real history have found puzzling. To make sense of why both fictionalizing and historicizing are called for, this book offers a systematic account of pragmatic genealogies as dynamic models serving to reverse-engineer the points of ideas in relation not only to near-universal human needs, but also to socio-historically situated needs. This allows the method to offer us explanation without reduction and to help us understand what led our ideas to shed the traces of their practical origins. Far from being normatively inert, moreover, pragmatic genealogy can affect the space of reasons, guiding attempts to improve our conceptual repertoire by helping us determine whether and when our ideas are worth having"--

Subject

• Idea (Philosophy)
• Genealogy (Philosophy)
• Philosophy of mind

Note

• "This book builds on a series of published articles...these articles grew out of a dissertation written under the auspices of Markus Wild and Martin Kusch"-- Acknowledgement.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-273) and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-444

ISBN

• 0198868707
• 9780198868705

OCLC

1182864445

Author

Queloz, Matthieu, author.

Title

The practical origins of ideas : genealogy as conceptual reverse-engineering / Matthieu Queloz.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-273) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-444