Matthieu Queloz

The Practical Origins of Ideas

Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering

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Produktbeschreibung

Why did such highly abstract ideas as truth, knowledge, or justice become so important to us? What was the point of coming to think in these terms? Matthieu Queloz presents a method for answering such questions: pragmatic genealogy. We can make sense of these grand abstractions by identifying their roots in concrete practical concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868705
• ISBN-10: 0198868707
• Artikelnr.: 60322825

Autorenporträt

Matthieu Queloz is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Before that, he completed a PhD at the University of Basel and an MA at the University of Zurich. His articles have appeared in journals such as Mind, Philosophers' Imprint, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Synthese. He received the 2020 Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1: Why We Came to Think as We Do
2: The Benefits of Reverse-Engineering
3: When Genealogy Is Called For
4: Ideas as Remedies to Inconveniences: David Hume
5: A Genetic History of Thought: Friedrich Nietzsche
6: Loosening the Need-Concept Tie: Edward Craig
7: The Uses of Intrinsic Value: Bernard Williams
8: A Political and Ameliorative State of Nature: Miranda Fricker
9: The Normative Significance of Pragmatic Genealogies
10: Ideas Worth Having
Bibliography
Index