Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
adversariality, Nel Noddings, Phyllis Rooney, receptivity, virtue
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
I rely on Nel Noddings’ analysis of receptivity as "an essential component of intellectual work," to argue that receptivity is a virtue of argumentation (1984, p. 34), practicing the principle of charity excellently for the sake of an author and their philosophical community. The deficiency of receptivity is epitomized by the philosopher who listens to attack. The excess of receptivity is the vice of insufficiently critical acceptance of an author regardless of the merits of an argument.
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Phyllis Rooney, Commentary on: Kathryn J. Norlock's "Receptivity as a virtue of (practitioners of) argumentation"
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Phyllis Rooney, Commentary on: Kathryn J. Norlock's "Receptivity as a virtue of (practitioners of) argumentation" (May 2013)
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I rely on Nel Noddings’ analysis of receptivity as "an essential component of intellectual work," to argue that receptivity is a virtue of argumentation (1984, p. 34), practicing the principle of charity excellently for the sake of an author and their philosophical community. The deficiency of receptivity is epitomized by the philosopher who listens to attack. The excess of receptivity is the vice of insufficiently critical acceptance of an author regardless of the merits of an argument.
