A Communicative Account of Coldness in Philosophy

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This Chapter develops the dissertation's theoretical framework. Drawing on Habermas's notion of communicative action, it advances a normative conception of philosophy as a conversational practice that requires its participants to take their interlocutors' claims seriously. The universality of philosophy, the chapter argues, is its inclusivity. Against this, the chapter defines "coldness," grounded in Strawson's objective attitude, and surveys three types (psychological, epistemic, and practical) with six subtypes. The chapter argues that cold approaches cannot be reflexive: the theorist applies modes of thought to others that she denies in herself, dividing subject from object - thereby hampering philosophy's claim to universality-as-inclusivity. Practical naturalism is the most dangerous, since it migrates into policy, replicating that division between policymaker and citizen, threatening democratic life.
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