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Conversations on Natural Philosophy

2014
An author of educational works intended especially for young women, Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769–1858) sought to combat the notion that technical topics were unsuitable for female students. Inspired by conversations with the famous scientists she entertained, she wrote textbooks in the lively form of discussions between a teacher and her two female ...
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In Conversation… Philosophy of Mind

2018
André Tomlin, The Mental Elf, interviews the Project PERFECT team at the University of Birmingham to find out how unusual beliefs offer philosophers of mind the opportunity to challenge mental health stigma.
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Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation

2023
The ideal of 'conversation' recurs in modern thought as a symbol and practice deemed central to ethics, democratic politics and thinking itself. Interweaving readings of fiction and philosophy in a 'conversational' style inspired by Stanley Cavell, Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation
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The Conversational Tradition in Chinese Philosophy

Philosophy East and West, 1956
THE PROBLEM OF this paper is to discuss one formal aspect of Chinese philosophy that has appeared and reappeared in each of the great ages of Chinese intellectual history: the Philosophical Conversation. I shall try to show first what I mean by Philosophical Conversation and how it differs from the Philosophical Dialogue so familiar in the West. I will
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Grice, Conversational Implicature and Philosophy

2013
The importance of Grice’s theory of conversation and in particular his account of conversational implicature (Grice in Studies in the way of words. Harvard University Press, Harvard, pp. 22–40, 1975; 1978) in the development and current concerns of pragmatics is almost impossible to exaggerate.
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Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education

2013
Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education presents a series of conversations expressing many of the multiple voices that currently constitute the field of philosophy of education. Philosophy of education as a discipline has undergone several turns--the once marginal perspectives of the various feminisms, critical Marxism, and poststructuralist,
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The Evasion of Conversion in Recent American Philosophy

2004
This chapter focuses on three contemporary philosophers who have contributed significantly to the development of pragmatism and American philosophy: Richard Rorty, Cornel West, and Robert Corrington. It argues that Rorty avoids the fundamental issue of personal transformation, which his own argument demands. West has attained the public notoriety of an
Roger A. Ward, Roger A. Ward
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Sectarianism in Philosophy: A Conversation with Ian Hunter

History of European Ideas
Philosophy is generally identified with free and open-ended enquiry, grounded in universal reason, and capable of subjecting all other forms of knowledge to critical interrogation. At the same time, philosophy only exists in the form of particular schools: Platonic, Thomistic, Kantian, Hegelian, Marxist, Heideggerian, analytic, 'continental' and so on.
Ian Hunter, Valery Vino
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Between the Lines: Philosophy, Text and Conversation

Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2009
In doing philosophy we need to be aware of the awkwardness of thinking in terms of having a method, still more any kind of ‘methodology’. Instead we might consider the different ways in which philosophy has been conceived in terms of contrasts: for example between the written and the spoken word, between exposition and dialogue, and between—in Richard ...
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Conversion in Philosophy: Wittgenstein's “Saving Word”

Hypatia, 2000
Wittgenstein raises the notion of “conversion” in philosophy through his claims that philosophical understanding is a matter of the will rather than the intellect. Soulez examines this notion in Wittgenstein's philosophy through a series of reflections on the aims and methodology of his philosophical “grammar,” in relation to comparable models among ...
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