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Call for papers for an OLP Paper at the NeMLA in May
NeMLA’s 53rd CONVENTION Baltimore, MD March 10-13, 2022 Abstract deadline: September 30th, 2021 Panel: Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Ethics of Care Abstract This panel seeks papers that use Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) to analyze themes of ethics and care in both literature and philosophy. The attention this philosophy pays to language in its everyday use grounds it in community because the meaning of words is in their use. Individual speakers thus become relevant to the construction of meaning, which arises in use as a shared human practice. For J. L. Austin, this picture of meaning involves a sharpened awareness of words and therefore of reality. Cora Diamond calls this attention to reality, detail, and particularity in language Wittgenstein’s “realistic spirit.” Moreover, as Toril Moi explains, our words express and reveal us: the quality of our attention reveals something about our morality. The ethical dimension…Read more
