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dc.contributor.authorDutilh Novaes, Catarina
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-04T16:30:01Z
dc.date.available2020-02-04T16:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2020-03
dc.identifier265917583
dc.identifier48267402-f360-4bea-ad3b-9e223e0bc525
dc.identifier85042404501
dc.identifier.citationDutilh Novaes , C 2020 , ' Carnapian explication and ameliorative analysis : a systematic comparison ' , Synthese , vol. 197 , no. 3 , pp. 1011-1034 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1732-9en
dc.identifier.issn0039-7857
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19407
dc.description.abstractA distinction often drawn is one between conservative versus revisionary conceptions of philosophical analysis with respect to commonsensical beliefs and intuitions. This paper offers a comparative investigation of two revisionary methods: Carnapian explication and ameliorative analysis as developed by S. Haslanger. It is argued that they have a number of common features, and in particular that they share a crucial political dimension: they both have the potential to serve as instrument for social reform. Indeed, they may produce improved versions of key concepts of everyday life, for example those pertaining to social categories such as gender and race (among others), which in turn may lead to social change. The systematic comparison of these two frameworks offered here, where similarities as well as differences are discussed, is likely to provide useful guidance to practitioners of both approaches, as it will highlight important aspects of each of them that tend to remain implicit and under-theorized in existing applications of these methodologies to specific questions.
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dc.format.extent385043
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSyntheseen
dc.subjectRevisonary analysisen
dc.subjectCarnapen
dc.subjectExplicationen
dc.subjectHaslangeren
dc.subjectAmeliorative analysisen
dc.subjectPhilosophical methodsen
dc.subjectRaceen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleCarnapian explication and ameliorative analysis : a systematic comparisonen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studiesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1732-9
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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