This book calls scholars to avoid the temptation to reduce philosophy into a normative discipline. The author argues that philosophy's main responsibility does not reside in changing the world, but in safeguarding sense and intelligibility against unfounded forms of skepticism.

Randy Ramal is a visiting researcher at Arizona State University.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: On Ordinariness and Philosophy's Responsibility to Intelligibility

Chapter 2: Speculating on being in the world alongside Plato and Aristotle

Chapter 3: Courting Ordinary Language with the Ideal Language Philosophers

Chapter 4: Negotiating Ordinary Experience with the Empiricists

Chapter 5: Rubbing Shoulders with Wittgenstein on Ordinary Realism

Chapter 6: Inverting the Logic of Ordinary Atheism with Flew and the New Atheists

Chapter 7: Animalizing Philosophy with Derrida and Coetzee

Conclusion: Final Thoughts

Bibliography

Index

About the Author