--- aliases: date-created: [2022-01-11 at 08:47] status: 🌱 tags: research-note --- %% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] [[Writing as Social]] [[Writing Philosophy]] %% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] - [[Introduction - Why Care about How We Write]] - [[Writing as a Means]] - **[[The Sociality of Writing Philosophy]]** # The Sociality of Writing Philosophy - Writing is normally a social activity: a writer produces a text that relates them as author to the reader. - The manner in which they write affects the nature of this relation, the way their writing connects them to others. - Within the modern academy, philosophers relate to each other through various kinds of public texts (comments, notes, drafts, slides, manuscripts, published works, and the like) - The writing of public texts enables philosophers to participate in cooperative practices of knowledge production. - Philosophers ought to care about participating in cooperative practices of knowledge production. - So, philosophers ought to care about writing in ways that empower them to collaborate with others through their writing. ## References - Holowchak 2011, *Critical Reasoning and Philosophy - A Concise Guide to Reading, Evaluating, and Writing Philosophical Works* - Leydesdorff 2016, "Information, Meaning, and Intellectual Organization in Networks of Inter-Human Communication" - Nykopp, M., Marttunen, M., & Laurinen, L. (2014). "University Students’ Knowledge Construction during Face to Face Collaborative Writing". In Klein, P., Boscolo, P., Kirkpatrick, L., & Gelati, C. (Eds.). (2014). *Writing as a Learning Activity*. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. - Nystrand M., Gamoran A., Carbonaro W. (2001) "On the Ecology of Classroom Instruction". In: Tynjälä P., Mason L., Lonka K. (eds) _Writing as a Learning Tool. Studies in Writing_, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. - Routledge 2022, *The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing - An Educational Philosophy and Theory Read* - Watson 1992, *Writing Philosophy - A Guide to Professional Writing and Publishing*