Speculative Empiricism, Nature and the Question of Predatory Abstractions

A Conversation with Didier Debaise

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2353136
AutoresDidier Debaise (0000-0002-4047-162X, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Thomas P Keating (0000-0003-2334-5987, Linköping University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen38
Número7-8
Páginas309-323
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02632764211052076
OpenAlexW3213366837
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas5

In conversation 1 with Didier Debaise, this piece thinks transversally across Nature as Event (2017a) and Speculative Empiricism (2017b) to explore some of the key stakes in his philosophy, namely: the relationship between the task of thinking a speculative empiricism and the problem of the bifurcation of nature. Engaging with the themes of nature, abstraction, dualism, pragmatism, and the role of stories in dramatizing our sensitivity to the world, the conversation develops Debaise's contribution to theorising alternative modes of knowledge and experience capable of admitting those infra-sensible, inaudible, or imperceptible qualities of events. Distinctly, Debaise introduces here the problem of 'predatory abstractions' as one way to understand the problem of bifurcation. Ethically, the question of predatory abstractions makes new demands on the social sciences: to story new abstractions capable of deepening our experience of nature

Abstraction · Cognitive science · Conversation · Dualism · Empiricism · Epistemology · Key (lock · Pragmatism · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology