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dc.contributor.authorCahill, Kevin M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-08T14:08:10Z
dc.date.available2021-01-08T14:08:10Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.isbn9780367638238en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45985
dc.description.abstractThis 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 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophyen_US
dc.subject.otherambit of culture;Charles Taylor;Clifford Geertz;Cora Diamond;external world skepticism,;finitude;interpretivism;John Dupré;Kevin Cahill;linguistic agency;naturalism;ordinary language;other minds skepticism;philosophical anthropology;philosophy of the social sciences;practical holism;relativism;Stanley Cavell;skepticism;Wittgensteinen_US
dc.titleTowards a Philosophical Anthropology of Cultureen_US
dc.title.alternativeNaturalism, Relativism, and Skepticismen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003120841en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByUniversitetet i Bergen
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages208en_US
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