Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte - Volume 109, Issue 1, 2017

Abstract Sophie de Grouchy: The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism In this paper, I treat Sophie de Grouchy as an important contributor to liberal reflection on the famous distinction between two kinds of liberty. I place her in the intellectual context of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and show it is likely that Benjamin Constant was familiar with her work. Along the way, by engaging w Read More

Abstract Philosophizing on Scars: Plea for a Material Turn in Phenomonology In this paper, I provide a philosophical reflection on the meaning of scars while drawing on phenomenological studies of the body. According to Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the body as Leib or corps vécu (lived body) functions as a transcendental condition for world disclosure. Because of this transcendental reasoning, phenomenological studies conce Read More

Abstract Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí, the Invention of Women and the Limits of (Feminist) Philosophy In this paper I argue that the work of Nigerian feminist scholar Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí reveals the limitations of the attempts by Western feminist philosophers to subvert philosophy’s occupation with the universal. By paying close attention to the particularities of Yorùbá society, Oyĕwùmí creates a knowledge framework or epistemology t Read More

Abstract A View from the Margins. A Situated Intersectional Perspective in Philosophy In this article, we introduce a situated intersectional perspective as an approach to look critically at the ways in which philosophical knowledge is constructed, and to question what disappears from sight in the process. ‘Intersectionality’ and ‘situated knowledges’ are two concepts that have been developed within feminist scholarship Read More

Abstract Can Muslims Think? The Invisibility of the Islamic Philosophical Tradition This paper discusses some authors and genres of the classcial Islamic tradition not generally recognized as philosophical, but relevant both for the understanding of today’s confrontation between the Islamic world and the liberal West, and for academic philosophical discussions of Islam. I focus on the theologian Ibn Taymiyya, who has been hij Read More

Abstract Is Philosophy too Left-wing? Ideological diversity has been on the research agenda in the social sciences for a couple of years. Yet in philosophy, the topic has not attracted much interest. This article tries to start filling this gap. We discuss a number of possible causes for the underrepresentation of right-wing and conservative philosophers in the academic profession. We also argue why this should be an impor Read More

Abstract Working principles: Building scientific memories in social research Internal and external validity of experimental and quasi-experimental research are both essential in the evaluation of interventions; this is true in such diverse practices as social policy and pharmacology. However, they may trade-off if the quest for internal validity brings about the treatment of contextual variables – that helped to make or fail the in Read More

Abstract The Unity of a Thought. On the Relation Between Logic and Metaphysics, and the Nature of Thought What does the unity of a thought consist in? The analytic tradition typically accepts the Fregean answer to this question: a thought is, in the fundamental case, the result of applying a concept to an appropriate range of objects. Yet upon reflection this turns out to be insufficient. I follow Rödl’s exploration of the unity o Read More