Interdisciplinarity and Progress in Philosophy

Derrick Darby

Daily Nous

2016-09-02

“I am trying to establish an alternative to the race consciousness championed by the American left and the colorblindness defended by the American right.”

“Doing justice to this question has required venturing outside the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, seeking knowledge from elsewhere and in collaboration with other scholars laboring on the race problem.”

“Philosophers of science, philosophers of language, and philosophers of mind have long shown us that solving certain philosophical problems requires us to venture into the domains of natural science, linguistics, and cognitive science.”

“It should therefore come as no surprise that addressing problems pertaining to race, racism, and racial inequality require attending to work in social science, history, and law.”

“The works that I find most insightful in political philosophy these days… bring philosophy into conversation with these disciplines in skillful, subtle, and suggestive ways.”


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