Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

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Synopsis
This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life. It addresses questions about how our moral thinking is informed by our conceptual practices, especially in ways related to the relationship between ethics and literature, post-Wittgensteinian ethics, or meta-philosophical concerns about the style of philosophical writing. Written in an accessible and non-technical style, the book uses examples from real-life events or pieces of well-known fictional stories to introduce its discussions. In doing so, it demonstrates the complex way examples, rather than exemplifying philosophical points, inform and condition how we approach the points for which we want to argue. The author shows how examples guide or block our understanding in certain directions, how they do this by stressing morally relevant aspects or dimensions of the terms, and how the sense of moral seriousness allows us to learn from examples. The final chapter explores whether these kinds of engagement with examples can be understood as "thinking primarily through examples." Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in ethics and moral philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of literature.
Copyright:
2021

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Book Size:
224 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000352030
Related ISBNs:
9781003138778, 9780367684709, 9780367687199
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Ondřej Beran, The right of Ondřej Beran to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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No
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English
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Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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