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The Practical Origins of Ideas - Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering (Hardcover)
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The Practical Origins of Ideas - Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering (Hardcover)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. 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? In The Practical
Origins of Ideas Matthieu Queloz presents a philosophical method
designed to answer such questions: the method of pragmatic
genealogy. Pragmatic 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.
However, 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.
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