Social Meaning and Philosophical Method
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HaslangerAPAPresidentialAddress2013submitted.pdf
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Haslanger, Sally
Date Issued
December 2013
Journal
American Philosophical Association 110th Eastern Division Annual Meeting
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American Philosophical Association
Citation
Haslanger, Sally. "Social Meaning and Philosophical Method." American Philosophical Association 110th Eastern Division Annual Meeting (December 2013).
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
There are special challenges in writing a Presidential Address: you want to address a very broad group of philosophers with knowledge and abilities that far exceed your own, and you want to say something that will be as engaging as possible. Philosophers have addressed a great many issues, with different methods, and I want there to be space in our discipline for all of them. I myself love arcane philosophical topics – put me in a world where I could spend my time pouring over Aristotle’s Metaphysics and I’d be happy – and I believe that philosophy yields knowledge and that is intrinsically valuable. I also love kinds of philosophy that many would not regard as philosophy at all: philosophy as it emerges in thinking about personal and family issues, philosophy in the context of political activism, and philosophy that is inextricable from empirical research.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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