Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnograph...
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| description | This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates, he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book, which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy, the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein, and philosophical anthropology. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367638238, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1606762025-05-28T06:06:41Z Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Cahill, Kevin M. Kevin Cahill ambit of culture naturalism philosophical anthropology interpretivism Clifford Geertz Charles Taylor relativism John Dupré Stanley Cavell Cora Diamond skepticism philosophy of the social sciences Wittgenstein practical holism ordinary language other minds skepticism external world skepticism, linguistic agency finitude culture concept Resolute Reading Cavell’s View Cavell’s Claim Cavell’s Work External World Skepticism Cavell’s Understanding Cavell’s Thought Zande Magic thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHR Western philosophy from c 1800 thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAB Philosophy of religion This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates, he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book, which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy, the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein, and philosophical anthropology. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367638238, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2025-05-28T06:06:40Z 2025-05-28T06:06:40Z 2025-05-27T10:40:50Z 2021 book ONIX_20250527T122911_9781000348729_72 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102799 9781000348729 9780367637156 9781000348743 9781003120841 9780367638238 9781000348767 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160676 eng Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102799/1/9781000348729.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003120841 10.4324/9781003120841 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 80ce79f3-8351-48c5-81cb-d6eed6a8b309 39729116-4b2f-4b53-936b-3f05ae46f005 9781000348729 9780367637156 9781000348743 9781003120841 9780367638238 9781000348767 Routledge 194 Oxford [...] Universitetet i Bergen University of Bergen 10.13039/501100005036 open access |
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