
Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
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An Anxiety About the Speculative and the Fictional
Anxiety about the speculative and fictional has a large rold to do with why analytic philosophers have only fairly recently, in the last few decades, really re embraced genealogyd. In place of niche's, let's call it speculative history, we have an account from the evolutionary sciencist that i think is just as speculative as nichas, and probably not much more accurate. Amila: Maybe one of the things christop that genealogy can do for us, then, these debunking or subversive genealogies, whether they're rooted in good history or not, still have a powerful cultural impact.
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