On philosophy, intelligibility, and the ordinary : going the bloody hard way
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On philosophy, intelligibility, and the ordinary : going the bloody hard way
（Contemporary Whitehead studies）
Lexington Books, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index
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Randy Ramal argues that philosophers have a hermeneutical responsibility to the intelligibility of everyday life. Furthermore, they need to go the hard way to fulfill it, which entails overcoming the temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline, while also appreciating the need to limit the philosopher's engagement with the world to explicating the coherent sense that everyday life has, and to recovering that sense when life's intelligibility is challenged by unwarranted skepticism. 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. The latter include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the empiricists, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, Anthony Flew, the Ideal-Language philosophers, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam, Cora Diamond, Peter Singer, Michel de Certeau, Stanley Rosen, Richard Dawkins, J.M. Coetzee, and David Foster Wallace.
Table 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
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