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- Title
The Logic of Posthuman Inquiry: Affirmative Politics, Validity, and Futurities.
- Authors
Pratt, Scott L.; Rosiek, Jerry Lee
- Abstract
Empirical research informed by posthumanist philosophy is proliferating in the social sciences. This research takes many forms and is willfully pluralistic and creative in the analytic approaches it takes. The innovation, however, is not entirely free form. Posthumanist scholarship both employs familiar forms of inference and is also forwarding a distinctive array of inferential practices that until now have not been commonly present in mainstream/whitestream social sciences. Attending to the logic of emerging posthumanist empiricism can help clarify the affirmative ethics and politics of posthumanist inquiry. This essay offers that a modal, dialethic, paraconsistent logic of action is more suited to posthumanist inquiry than a classical logic of representation. This logic of action locates validity not with the accuracy of representations, but in the specific character of the futurities enabled and disabled by the ontologically generative action of inquiry. Implications for an axiology of posthumanist empiricism are explored.
- Subjects
LOGIC; FREIGHT forwarders; PRACTICAL politics; EMPIRICISM; EMPIRICAL research
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2023, Vol 29, Issue 8/9, p897
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10778004231162075