Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · Jun 17 "Ordinary Style Philosophy", by Jonathan Ettel & me, is out in Paradigmi. We argue that analytic philosophy's commitment to "clarity" over rhetoric ironically produced an easily detected rhetoric of its own—of modals, copulas, dep clauses, etc—and trace its history. www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.30460...
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How is that ironic or paradoxical? Opposition to sophistry (in the way philosophers understand that epithet) isn't the same thing as opposition to having a distinctive writing style
(DM me if you'd like a PDF!) This is in a special issue: "Style in Philosophy: Qual & Quant Studies", ed. by Paolo Babbiotti, whose book (Cavell, Williams and the Question of Style in Philosophy) is a close + distant reading of two great philosophical stylists. www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1120-34...