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- Title
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTRODUCTION.
- Authors
Finlayson, Lorna
- Abstract
What can examining the introductions to books in philosophy tell us about those books, and about that discipline? This article begins by differentiating ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ perspectives on the discipline of philosophy, questioning the most likely understanding of this division as one between professional and ‘layman’, and emphasizing instead a basic distinction between ‘affirmative’ and ‘non-affirmative’. The introduction, I suggest, is productively symptomatic of the character of contemporary philosophy. Like an owl pellet, it can tell us a lot about the kind of creature that philosophy is and the environment it inhabits.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; PERSPECTIVE (Philosophy); SOCIAL belonging
- Publication
Think: Philosophy for Everyone, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 49, p23
- ISSN
1477-1756
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1477175618000076