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Social Theory From The Second Person Perspective, Connor Cosgrove
Social Theory From The Second Person Perspective, Connor Cosgrove
Major Papers
This paper relies on the work of Charles Taylor, Rahel Jaeggi, and Harmut Rosa to develop a method of ‘second-person critique.’ This is developed in opposition to first-person critique, otherwise known as self criticism, and third-person critique, which I take to be representative of instrumental reason. I criticize instrumental reason from Taylor’s perspective, while also relying on Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber to do the same. To further develop Rosa’s theory of resonance, I rely on David Graeber. I conclude by suggesting that while phenomenology has long accounted for our embodied relationship to the world, a ‘resonant phenomenology’ that includes …
Wage Slavery As Indignity: Examining How Capitalism Produces Dignity Violations, Alexander Petk
Wage Slavery As Indignity: Examining How Capitalism Produces Dignity Violations, Alexander Petk
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Both Martha Nussbaum and Karl Marx examine human dignity. Whereas Marx’s account describes how the capitalist mode of production harms individual dignity, Nussbaum’s account is more general. She provides both a positive account of dignity as based on her capabilities approach, while also providing an explanation as to how dignity comes to be violated. She endeavours to describe what features a dignified life ought to possess. Despite this, Nussbaum fails to identify the role that the capitalist system plays in depriving individuals of a dignified life. Chiefly, the position of ‘wage slavery’ is both a product of the capitalist system, …
The Psychedelic Dasein: Modelling The Effects Of Psilocybin With Heidegger’S Phenomenology, Eamon Robert Stuart Macdougall
The Psychedelic Dasein: Modelling The Effects Of Psilocybin With Heidegger’S Phenomenology, Eamon Robert Stuart Macdougall
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This paper argues that the mystical experience induced by psilocybin (understood through the tradition of Heideggerian phenomenology) modulates the attuned understanding of oneself, the world, and how the individual relates to the world. This kind of particular experience is not accessible to the individual through ordinary consciousness, therefore psilocybin may give us access to a new kind of understanding. This understanding may offer a solution to the empirical deficiencies surrounding the short-term and long-term effects of psilocybin, such as how a meagre two to three high doses have yielded unprecedented results in the treatment of tobacco addiction, and in the …
Thinkings 11: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 11: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
No abstract provided.
Doing Things With Arguments: Assertion, Persuasion, Performance, Blake D. Scott
Doing Things With Arguments: Assertion, Persuasion, Performance, Blake D. Scott
OSSA Conference Archive
In “Three Perspectives on Argument,” Wenzel argued that scholars should orient their research around the well-known triad of rhetorical, dialectical, and logical perspectives on argument. Despite the success of Wenzel’s triad in orienting pluralistic research, he nonetheless maintained that an “eventual synthesis” of the three perspectives was both possible and desirable. In this paper I reconsider Wenzel’s idea by asking what might be preventing such a synthesis today. I argue that one obstacle to this is a common philosophical assumption about rhetoric that opposes assertion to persuasion, truth to effectiveness. Following Barbara Cassin, I challenge this assumption and consider how …
Commentary On Anne-Marie Mccallion's "Adversity And Attrition: Disassociated Disagreement And Extracted Speech In Undergraduate Philosophers, Philip Rose
OSSA Conference Archive
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Thinkings 10: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 10: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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Thinkings 9: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 9: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
No abstract provided.
Thinkings 8: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 8: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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Thinkings 7: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 7: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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A Ludological Perspective On Argument, Michael A. Yong-Set
A Ludological Perspective On Argument, Michael A. Yong-Set
OSSA Conference Archive
This introductory paper explores a new perspective on argumentation that draws upon the resources of ludology – the critical and academic of study of games qua games. In the Philosophical Investigations, one of the later Wittgenstein’s more mysterious suggestions is that if one understands how games work, then one would be able to understand how natural language works. Similarly, it will be argued that if we look to how games function as games, we will be able to understand how the ‘argument-game’ functions. The epistemic importance of rhetorical argumentation rather than analytic demonstration becomes apparent if we consider ‘argument’ …
Thinkings 6: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 6: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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Thinkings 5: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 5: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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Thinkings 4: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 4: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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The Failure Of Certainty: Why Economics Needs Rhetoric, Jerry Petersen
The Failure Of Certainty: Why Economics Needs Rhetoric, Jerry Petersen
OSSA Conference Archive
Privileging deductive first principles over inductive contingencies, I argue, contributed to the economic meltdown of late and will continue to limit the range of reasonable solutions available to solve entrenched economic problems. I cite Toulmin’s critique of scientific certainty and the rancor over the demise of the ninth planet Pluto to posit a role for rhetoric in making valid claims across all fields of study, calling for more productive uncertainty subject to vigorous argumentation.
What Argumentation (Theory) Can Do For Philosophy In The 21st Century, Henrique Jales Ribeiro
What Argumentation (Theory) Can Do For Philosophy In The 21st Century, Henrique Jales Ribeiro
OSSA Conference Archive
The author holds that the old theory according to which philosophy is the matrix of argumentation studies must be entirely reviewed currently. He argues that argumentation theory, as an interdisciplinary domain, may start playing, in new terms, the role which ― in the Cartesian tree ― was that of philosophy as the trunk of the different branches of human knowledge, as long as a set of requirements, which he lists, were met.
Thinkings 3: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 3: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
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Thinkings 2: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 2: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
No abstract provided.
Thinkings 1: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Thinkings 1: Collected Evocations, Interventions, And Readings, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
No abstract provided.