eprintid: 10112428 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/11/24/28 datestamp: 2020-11-19 11:51:36 lastmod: 2022-11-01 07:10:24 status_changed: 2020-11-19 11:51:36 type: thesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Salinas Lemus, Francisco Javier title: Doing Philosophy. An Inquiry into the Academic Lives of Philosophers ispublished: unpub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 keywords: Philosophy, Philosophers, Sociology of Philosophy, Sociology of Knowledge, Philosophy in the UK note: Copyright © The Author 2020. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. abstract: This research deals with a question that has not been convincingly answered in sociological studies: what do philosophers do? Sociologists have traditionally been interested in philosophy mainly as a means of justifying their own disciplinary knowledge rather than as a proper object of sociological inquiry. On the one hand, early sociologists claim that their domain is different from that of philosophers as it is a scientific discipline; on the other hand, new approaches amongst sociologists consider philosophy as an intellectual ally or foundation for the discipline. Except for a few authors such as Collins, Fuller and Geisler, only a handful of scholars have studied philosophy as a professional culture and discipline deploying sociological theory and concepts. In this document, I propose to begin to fill this gap through an exploratory sociological study of the practice and effects of mainstream professional philosophy in the UK. Therefore, my study addresses the formation, boundary-work, pedagogical effect, disciplinary tensions and neoliberal negotiations of professional contemporary philosophy in the UK. In this sense, this work tries to understand the complex social interactions amongst tradition, embodied subjectivities, organisations, knowledge pretensions, conflicts, policies and the heterogeneous materials that are mobilised by practitioners of philosophy to shape philosophy in its current institutionalised forms. Combining theoretical insights with an ethnographic approximation to this field, with in-depth interviews, historical research, reading of institutional documents and numerical data, I attempt to develop a realistic social description of philosophy as practised in the UK. As a result, I characterise the socio-educational situation of analytic philosophy as a culture, in consideration of the dreams and terrors of its practitioners and the enaction of social forces and socio-technical apparatuses. date: 2020-10-28 date_type: published oa_status: green full_text_type: other thesis_class: doctoral_open thesis_award: Ph.D language: eng thesis_view: UCL_Thesis primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1821878 lyricists_name: Salinas Lemus, Francisco lyricists_id: FJSAL84 actors_name: Salinas Lemus, Francisco actors_id: FJSAL84 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pagerange: 1-282 pages: 283 event_title: UCL (University College London) institution: UCL (University College London) department: Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education thesis_type: Doctoral editors_name: Ball, SJ editors_name: Suissa, J citation: Salinas Lemus, Francisco Javier; (2020) Doing Philosophy. An Inquiry into the Academic Lives of Philosophers. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112428/1/Salinas.%20UCL%20Doctoral%20Thesis.FINAL.pdf