Neil Gascoigne
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Gascoigne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Gascoigne |
| SIGNATURE | GASCOIGNE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3737-2751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making progress: Pragmatism, conceptual engineering, and ordinary language
Pragmatists are interested primarily not in representing a purportedly unchanging Reality but in articulating prophetic future possibilities on the basis of the values most venerated by a culture/society in the present. This makes pragmatism sound a little like ‘Conceptual Engineering’. Conceptual engineers too are interested in transforming our ways of talking, which implies some notion of how such improvements are to be evaluated. Nevertheless,…
Taking Rorty seriously: Pragmatism, metaphilosophy, and truth
Although Rorty’s work has become a touchstone for evaluating the metaphilosophical stance appropriate for pragmatism, the suspicion prevails that his ‘neopragmatism’ (NeoP) is undermined by a failure to take first-order philosophical problems seriously. We propose that this imputation is grounded in the assumption that he attempts to distinguish metaphilosophy from philosophy in order to insulate the former from the latter, and against it argue t…
Changing Minds: Pragmatism and Feminism
Since the 1990s Sally Haslanger has argued that part of the work of philosophers is not to describe a concept like women but to change it in order to help bring about a fairer society. Since, she argues, the definitions of such concepts should be formulated in accordance with an epistemological framework that foregrounds their normative role, the work of feminists is crucial in identifying the legitimate values that such concepts ought to serve a…
Double Visions: Autobiography and the Ends of Philosophy
In Contingency, irony and solidarity Rorty attempts to solve what Robert Pippin calls the ‘Modernity Problem’ by outlining a new self-understanding for the intellectuals of the ideal liberal society. The so-called liberal ironists of this post-philosophical milieu are no longer characterized by the quest for what Rorty describes as ‘a single vision’. This paper evaluates Rorty’s attempt to conceptualize the self-image of post-philosophical intell…
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Double Visions: Autobiography and the Ends of Philosophy
In Contingency, irony and solidarity Rorty attempts to solve what Robert Pippin calls the ‘Modernity Problem’ by outlining a new self-understanding for the intellectuals of the ideal liberal society. The so-called liberal ironists of this post-philosophical milieu are no longer characterized by the quest for what Rorty describes as ‘a single vision’. This paper evaluates Rorty’s attempt to conceptualize the self-image of post-philosophical intell…
Changing Minds: Pragmatism and Feminism
Since the 1990s Sally Haslanger has argued that part of the work of philosophers is not to describe a concept like women but to change it in order to help bring about a fairer society. Since, she argues, the definitions of such concepts should be formulated in accordance with an epistemological framework that foregrounds their normative role, the work of feminists is crucial in identifying the legitimate values that such concepts ought to serve a…
Taking Rorty seriously: Pragmatism, metaphilosophy, and truth
Although Rorty’s work has become a touchstone for evaluating the metaphilosophical stance appropriate for pragmatism, the suspicion prevails that his ‘neopragmatism’ (NeoP) is undermined by a failure to take first-order philosophical problems seriously. We propose that this imputation is grounded in the assumption that he attempts to distinguish metaphilosophy from philosophy in order to insulate the former from the latter, and against it argue t…
Making progress: Pragmatism, conceptual engineering, and ordinary language
Pragmatists are interested primarily not in representing a purportedly unchanging Reality but in articulating prophetic future possibilities on the basis of the values most venerated by a culture/society in the present. This makes pragmatism sound a little like ‘Conceptual Engineering’. Conceptual engineers too are interested in transforming our ways of talking, which implies some notion of how such improvements are to be evaluated. Nevertheless,…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (4 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Pragmatism (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Analytic philosophy (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)