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On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy.

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正題名/作者:	On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy./
作者:	Lockard, Claire A.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (251 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04A.
標題:	Philosophy. -
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ISBN:	9798352929469

On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy.
Lockard, Claire A.

On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy. - 1 online resource (251 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Loyola University Chicago, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

In my dissertation, I use resources from feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and queer theory to critique and reimagine practices of and calls for charitable interpretation in academic philosophy. Often, philosophers define "interpretive charity" as the practice of reading a text and then presenting its arguments in the most favorable possible light. In my exploration of the political, hermeneutic, and pedagogical impacts of being oriented and toward charitability, I argue that charity is not a politically neutral interpretative or argumentative tool in academic philosophy. Instead, contemporary charitability practices have resulted in a charitability gap, such that those who are least likely to be interpreted charitability are disproportionately asked to offer it. Furthermore, texts written by philosophers on the margins of the discipline are approached with considerably less charitability than are texts written by philosophers who are more dominantly positioned. I am particularly interested in calls for charity made in response to critiques of racist or sexist authors/texts: in these cases, charity is revealed as a selectively enforced methodological imperative and orientation device; it creates conditions for epistemic and affective harm; and it further-sediments academic philosophy's commitment to a logic and politics of purity. While charitability is risky-and charity is disproportionately demanded from already-marginalized philosophers even as it is withheld from them-I am hesitant to abandon charity entirely. The outright rejection of charitable orientations toward texts or others commits philosophers to a purity politics that, following Alexis Shotwell, I suggest we resist (Shotwell 2017). Instead, I develop an account of impure charity and charitability alongside my analysis of contexts in which charity may be hermeneutically, epistemically, and politically useful.

Electronic reproduction.
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2024

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