Research Catalog

Title

On philosophy, intelligibility, and the ordinary : going the bloody hard way / Randy Ramal.

Author

Ramal, Randy

Publication

• Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xxvi, 243 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Randy Ramal argues that philosophy's main responsibility lies in providing intelligibility to the ordinary language of everyday life while dispelling unwarranted skepticism. Philosophers need to go the hard way to fulfill this responsibility because of the constant and dangerous temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline rather than keep it as a descriptively hermeneutical enterprise. In On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is central to Ramal's endeavor to demonstrate the need to separate the hermeneutical responsibility of philosophy from the normative aspects of responsibility. While showing the futility of labeling Whitehead as a purely disinterested philosopher who abandons the idea that ordinariness is relevant to good philosophical thinking, Ramal frames this discussion within a larger, in-depth engagement with a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, and literary figures whose works touch on the question of the ordinary"--

Series Statement

Contemporary Whitehead studies

Uniform Title

Contemporary Whitehead studies.

Subject

• Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
• Philosophy
• Ordinary-language philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.

Contents

On ordinariness and philosophy's responsibility to intelligibility -- Speculating on Being in the world with Plato and Aristotle -- Courting ordinary language with the ideal language philosophers -- Negotiating ordinary experience with the empiricists -- Rubbing shoulders with Wittgenstein on ordinary realism -- Inverting the logic of ordinary atheism with Flew and Dawkins -- Animalizing philosophy with Derrida and Coetzee.

Call Number

JFE 21-6181

ISBN

• 1793638802
• 9781793638809

OCLC

1199328382

Author

Ramal, Randy, author.

Title

On philosophy, intelligibility, and the ordinary : going the bloody hard way / Randy Ramal.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Contemporary Whitehead studies

Contemporary Whitehead studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6181