Philosophy Outside-InA Critique of Academic Reason
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About this book
A sustained critique of present-day academic philosophy combined with a practical agenda for change
- Draws on a wide range of examples to shine light on one topic: philosophy’s current condition and how we can move beyond it
- Addresses issues of interest to students and teachers of philosophy in both the analytic and the Continental traditions: speculative realism, the ‘extended mind’ hypothesis, experimental philosophy, the ontology of political song, linguistic philosophy, anti-realism and epistemological scepticism
- Interrogates the analytical zeitgeist through a vigorous critique of the prevailing modes of thought
Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offers an alternative to what he sees as an over-specialisation of a lot of recent academic work.
Arguing that analytic philosophy has led to a narrowing of sights to the point where other approaches that might be more productive are blocked from view, he goes against the grain to claim that Continental philosophy holds the resources for a creative renewal of analytic thought.
Reviews
These engaging essays discuss topics ranging from anti-realism to the extended mind hypothesis and the ontology of political song. They use analytic as well as continental philosophers to provide a compelling demonstration, performative as well as logical, that the boundaries of academic specialization are an obstacle to creative philosophical thought.
Table of contents
Introduction; 1. How Not to Defeat Scepticism: why anti-realism won’t do the trick; 2. Great Philosophy: discovery, invention and the uses of error; 3. Under Which King, Bezonian? experimental philosophy versus thought-experiment; 4. Outside the Box: on the 'xtended-mind' hypothesis; 5. Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: the case of political song; 6. Speculative Realism: an interim report; 7. Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida; Index.