The Lure of the New and the Hold of the Dogmatic

In this article, St.Pierre argues that the dualist Cartesian ontology of the human, social, empirical sciences, along with that ontology’s Cartesian cogito and its research methodologies, has produced a dogmatic image of thought it is difficult to escape. To produce the new that is not recognizable in that onto-epistemological arrangement, she suggests reading philosophy and studying philosophical concepts that cannot be applied to the world but can re-orient thought and force thinking in thought.