Gaelan Murphy

The core of Gaelan ’ s teaching and research interest is philosophy as a way of life, which plays out in the relationship between reasonableness, hermeneutics and education. This is centered on two questions. First, the question of practical reason, how human beings come to reasonable judgements (or not) concerning the practical circumstances they are confronted with and, on that basis, follow through (or not) on this judgment in their actions. This concern is situated within a discussion of how one can live, think and act as a unified person (i.e. be reasonable), while living in a society that on its good days is marked by epistemological, moral and political unreasonableness, and on its bad days is marked by radical dogma, nihilism and invitations to political violence. Second, practical reason is cultivated through hermeneutics, the question of how to interpret classic texts. Hermeneutics, the reading of classic text, develops the art of dialectic (the art of asking and answering questions) as a way of cultivating phronesis, reasonableness, a non-rule governed mode of deliberation and judgement. Reasonableness, in this sense, is both an ability and a disposition. | History of political philosophy, Plato, 19th and 20th century continental political philosophy, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alexandre Koj è ve, political thought, technology

Gaelan Murphy is Department Chair | Associate Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include The core of Gaelan ’ s teaching and research interest is philosophy as a way of life, which plays out in the relationship between reasonableness, hermeneutics and education. This is centered on two questions. First, the question of practical reason, how human beings come to reasonable judgements (or not) concerning the practical circumstances they are confronted with and, on that basis, follow through (or not) on this judgment in their actions. This concern is situated within a discussion of how one can live, think and act as a unified person (i.e. be reasonable), while living in a society that on its good days is marked by epistemological, moral and political unreasonableness, and on its ba. This summary considered all 4 collected sources.