%% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] [[Writing as a Means]] [[Writing Philosophy]] %% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] - [[Introduction - Why Care about How We Write]] - **[[Writing as a Means]]** - [[The Sociality of Writing Philosophy]] # Writing as a Means - Philosophers ought to care about producing justified true belief. - The means through which something is produced may affect the character of the product. - Writing plays a primary role in the production of philosophical knowledge. - Therefore how one writes may affect the truth aptness of the justifications and beliefs produced therewith. - So, philosophers ought to care about how they write philosophy. ## References - Lang 1983, *Philosophy and the Art of Writing* - Lysaker 2018, *Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought* - Rorty 1987, "Philosophy as a Kind of Writing - An Essay on Derrida"