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Dr Paul Giladi's Outputs (58)

Making Sense of Erotically Oppressive Lifeworlds: Dynamics of Testimonial Smothering and Testimonial Quieting (2024)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (online). Making Sense of Erotically Oppressive Lifeworlds: Dynamics of Testimonial Smothering and Testimonial Quieting. Journal of Social Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12599

In this paper, I focus on applying Kristie Dotson's (2011) critical social epistemological framework to the topic of women's sexual arousal. My paper is divided into three parts. In Section 1, I provide a brief history of the DSM sexological discours... Read More about Making Sense of Erotically Oppressive Lifeworlds: Dynamics of Testimonial Smothering and Testimonial Quieting.

Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality (2023)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2023). Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality. In L. Corti, & J.-G. Schülein (Eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy (343-363). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41558-6_19

My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a powerful conceptual resource for explicating the cognitive pathology of scientism, and for also contr... Read More about Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality.

Does contemporary recognition theory rest on a mistake? (2023)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2025). Does contemporary recognition theory rest on a mistake?. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 51(1), 132-156. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231170905

My aim in this paper is to argue, contra Axel Honneth, that ‘the summons’ (Aufforderung), the central pillar of Fichte’s transcendentalist account of recognition, is best made sense of not as an ‘invitation’, but rather as a second-personal demand, w... Read More about Does contemporary recognition theory rest on a mistake?.

Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy (2022)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2022). Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy. In S. F. Aikin, & R. B. Talisse (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315149592-24

My aim in this chapter to provide an overview of three principal philosophical themes that bring pragmatism and a variety of positions in continental post-Kantian European philosophy directly into conversation: (I) Max Horkheimer’s and Antonio Gramsc... Read More about Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy.

Epistemic Exploitation and Ideological Recognition (2022)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2022). Epistemic Exploitation and Ideological Recognition. In P. Giladi, & N. McMillan (Eds.), Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429435133-8

In this chapter, I want to develop a thus far comparatively neglected critique of white privilege and entitlement, one which fuses resources from critical social epistemology and contemporary recognition theory. My focus is on making sense of whitene... Read More about Epistemic Exploitation and Ideological Recognition.

Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition (2022)
Book
Giladi, P., & McMillan, N. (Eds.). (2022). Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429435133

This volume includes original essays that examine the underexplored relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology. Its aims are to explore how far certain kinds of epistemic injustice, epistemic oppressi... Read More about Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition.

Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourse (2022)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2023). Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourse. European Journal of Philosophy, 31(3), 622-638. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12783

In this article, I argue that, for the purpose of developing an effective critical social ontology about gender groups, it is not simply sufficient to carve gender groups at their joints: one must have in view whether the metaphysical categories we u... Read More about Toward the “overthrow of Platonism”: Processist critical social ontology and ameliorative discourse.

Persons, Peirceish, perfidious pluralism – rescuing Sellars (2022)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2022). Persons, Peirceish, perfidious pluralism – rescuing Sellars. Philosophical inquiries, 10(2), 193-228. https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v10i1.386

In Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man (1962), Wilfrid Sellars contends that there is tension between manifest image (MI) and scientific image (SI) discursive formations. To end the tension and resolve the clash between the MI and the SI, Sell... Read More about Persons, Peirceish, perfidious pluralism – rescuing Sellars.

Habermas and Liberal Naturalism (2022)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2022). Habermas and Liberal Naturalism. In D. Macarthur, & M. De Caro (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209472-40

From a purely technical perspective, in Knowledge and Human Interests, Jürgen Habermas does not appear to make any ostensible references to the burgeoning tradition of liberal naturalism. From a purely philosophical perspective, Habermas’s transcende... Read More about Habermas and Liberal Naturalism.

Prolegomenon to Any Future Critical Responses to Naturalism (2021)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2021). Prolegomenon to Any Future Critical Responses to Naturalism. Filosofický časopis, 2021(3), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2021.3s75

In this paper, I propose a programme for future critical responses to naturalism. The paper is divided into two principal parts. In Part I, after providing a topography of contemporary critical approaches to the Placement Problem, which is the operat... Read More about Prolegomenon to Any Future Critical Responses to Naturalism.

‘Here be revisionary metaphysics!’ A critique of a concern about process philosophy (2021)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2021). ‘Here be revisionary metaphysics!’ A critique of a concern about process philosophy. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 60(2), 257-275. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0012217321000068

In this paper, I argue that John Dupré and Daniel Nicholson's ‘process manifesto’ is ironically more sympathetic to descriptive metaphysics than to revisionary metaphysics. Focusing on their argument that any process philosophy automatically slides i... Read More about ‘Here be revisionary metaphysics!’ A critique of a concern about process philosophy.

The Vulnerable Dynamics of Discourse (2021)
Journal Article
Giladi, P., & Petherbridge, D. (2021). The Vulnerable Dynamics of Discourse. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 89, 195-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246121000151

In this paper, we offer some compelling reasons to think that issues relating to vulnerability play a significant – albeit thus far underacknowledged – role in Jürgen Habermas’s notions of communicative action and discourse. We shall argue that the b... Read More about The Vulnerable Dynamics of Discourse.

Ethical Life, Growth, and Relational Institutions: Intersubjectivity, Freedom, and Critique (2021)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2021). Ethical Life, Growth, and Relational Institutions: Intersubjectivity, Freedom, and Critique. Etica & politica, 23(2), 233-253

The aim of this paper is to argue that there are two important positive connections between Hegel and Dewey, and that these important positive connections form the basis of a critical theory in a broad sense: (i) social processes and modern instituti... Read More about Ethical Life, Growth, and Relational Institutions: Intersubjectivity, Freedom, and Critique.

Butler and Postanalytic Philosophy (2021)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2021). Butler and Postanalytic Philosophy. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 36(2), 276-301. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2021.16

This article has two aims: (i) to bring Judith Butler and Wilfrid Sellars into conversation; and (ii) to argue that Butler's poststructuralist critique of feminist identity politics has metaphilosophical potential, given her pragmatic parallel with S... Read More about Butler and Postanalytic Philosophy.

The Dragon Seed Project: Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? (2020)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2020). The Dragon Seed Project: Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools?. In P. Giladi (Ed.), Hegel and the Frankfurt School. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315105857-12

In this chapter, I challenge (i) the liberal/social democratic reading of the Doppelsatz and Sittlichkeit as the best way of making sense of Hegelianism as politically progressive, and (ii) the particularly radical kind of critical theory which quest... Read More about The Dragon Seed Project: Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools?.

Introduction: From “Rescuing” and “Reanimating” Hegel to Taking Stock of Things (2020)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2020). Introduction: From “Rescuing” and “Reanimating” Hegel to Taking Stock of Things. In P. Giladi (Ed.), Hegel and the Frankfurt School. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315105857-1

Metaphysical thinking exhibits a pathological cognitive propensity for regarding normative constraints and the ultimate grounds for the justification of our beliefs as being beyond our practices. Ideal theory, as is well-known, has come under a near-... Read More about Introduction: From “Rescuing” and “Reanimating” Hegel to Taking Stock of Things.

A Foucauldian Critique of Scientific Naturalism: “Docile Minds” (2020)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2020). A Foucauldian Critique of Scientific Naturalism: “Docile Minds”. Critical Horizons, 21(3), 264-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2020.1790754

My aim in this paper is to articulate a Foucauldian critique of scientific naturalism as well as a Foucauldian critique of the nomothetic framework underlying the Placement Problem. My Foucauldian post-structuralist critique of scientific naturalism... Read More about A Foucauldian Critique of Scientific Naturalism: “Docile Minds”.