Reenchanting practice : Stanley Fish and the challenge of virtue ethics

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dc.contributor.authorCahill , Mariaen
dc.contributor.authorO'Callaghan, Patricken
dc.contributor.editorBustamante, Thomasen
dc.contributor.editorMartin, Margareten
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-03T11:29:32Z
dc.date.available2024-10-03T11:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.description.abstractIn this chapter, we critique Stanley Fish’s essay Dennis Martinez and the Uses of Theory, a key contribution to the ‘Fish-Dworkin debate’. Our core argument is that Fish’s central distinction between engaging in a practice and discoursing on that practice is too sharp, and that the two corollary claims that he makes – that practice is not generated by theory and that theory does not offer a genuine account of how practice unfolds – fail to convince. Behind Fish’s distinction is an attempt to reframe practice: to uncouple it from the sort of abstract theorising that takes place in a vacuum and to throw light on how practitioners actually carry out their activities. In what follows, we also seek to reframe practice, perhaps even to reenchant it, by drawing on the depth and richness of conceptions of practice available in the fields of virtue ethics and virtue jurisprudence. In Part 1, we outline the central distinction, while in Part II we examine how Fish applies that distinction to the practice of judging. In Part III, we examine how well the distinction stands up against understandings of practice that emerge from the field of virtue ethics. In Parts IV and V, we critique Fish’s two corollary claims by reference to insights from virtue ethics and virtue jurisprudence.en
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dc.identifier.citationCahill, M. and O'Callaghan, P. (2023) 'Reenchanting practice : Stanley Fish and the challenge of virtue ethics', in Bustamante, T. and Martin, M. (eds.) New essays on the Fish-Dworkin debate. New York: Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.en
dc.identifier.isbn9781509961795en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16497
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherHart Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofde Bustamante, T. d. R. and Martin, M. (eds.) New essays on the Fish-Dworkin debate. New York: Hart Publishing, An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.en
dc.rights© 2023, the Editors and Contributors severally. Published by Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectStanley Fishen
dc.subjectDennis Martinez and the Uses of Theoryen
dc.subjectFish-Dworkin debateen
dc.titleReenchanting practice : Stanley Fish and the challenge of virtue ethicsen
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