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Rigor or rhetoric: Public philosopher and public in dialogue
Burks, Deven
2019In Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, 9 (1), p. 1-10
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Keywords :
public philosophy; rhetoric; Brian Leiter
Abstract :
[en] Brian Leiter (2016) throws down two gauntlets to philosophers engaged in dialogue with the broader public. If, with the first, public philosophers recognize that they cannot offer substantive answers but only sophisticated method, they nevertheless fail to realize that said method does not resonate with the very public whom they purport to help. For, with the second, that method does not engage the emotivist and tribalist cast of contemporary public discourse: emotivist because a person’s moral and political beliefs are a function of emotional attitudes or affective responses for which she adduces reasons post hoc; tribalist because the person tracks not the inferential relation between beliefs but her similarity with interlocutors. In order to understand the full extent of this critique, it is necessary, first, to parse strands of public philosophy, distinct discursive sites, and pictures of philosophical practice and, then, to probe the critique’s empirical groundedness and intended scope. These elements in place, it is then possible to sketch public philosophy reconceived along Leiter’s lines as equal part rigor and rhetoric. That sketch may be somewhat filled out through two tactics employed in Jeffrey Stout’s (2004, 2010) work. These form part of a toolkit for philosophical dialogue whereby philosophers get a discursive grip on non-discursive factors underlying public discourse and push back on Leiter's dilemma.
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Burks, Deven ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Rigor or rhetoric: Public philosopher and public in dialogue
Publication date :
2019
Event name :
Dublin Graduate Conference 2018
Event organizer :
Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin
Event place :
Dublin, Ireland
Event date :
from 04-05-2018 to 05-05-2018
Audience :
International
Journal title :
Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
ISSN :
2009-1842
Publisher :
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Volume :
9
Issue :
1
Pages :
1-10
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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