«A ground-breaking book ... Queloz not only has given his readers an excellent example of how to do philosophy, but also has done more than anyone in recent times to reanimate debate about what makes philosophy relevant.»
Paul A Roth, Analysis
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«A ground-breaking book ... Queloz not only has given his readers an excellent example of how to do philosophy, but also has done more than anyone in recent times to reanimate debate about what makes philosophy relevant.»
Paul A Roth, Analysis
«Unlike a lot of contemporary scholarship, the book is refreshingly ambitious. It tackles big questions like 'What is philosophy about?' and 'How should we investigate its subject matter?' The book is also delightful to read: the prose is colourful, elegant, and sharp, and Queloz has a knack for bringing high-minded ideals down to earth. I wish more philosophers wrote so well. Overall, it is an excellent and important piece of philosophy.»
Michael Hannon, MIND
«superb ... [a] splendid book. ... Queloz's The Practical Origins of Ideas will stand as one of the most important pragmatist treatises on conceptual engineering.»
Cheryl Misak, Analysis
«this is a great book ... the prose has a kind of effortless elegance that reminds one of the book's primary inspiration, Bernard Williams. It is possible to read it for pleasure, not merely from duty.»
Alexander Prescott-Couch, Analysis
«Queloz's prose is clear and the book is never dull, and it will be interesting to those working on methodological issues in contemporary philosophy. . . . there is a tremendous amount to be learned from this very stimulating book.»
P J E Kail, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
«Matthieu Queloz's exciting new book ... is clear, impressively erudite, well-structured, sensitive to both historical and systematic questions about genealogy and advances the debate about the genealogical method. It is an invaluable contribution to the ever-growing literature surrounding genealogical arguments and anyone interested in such debates cannot afford to overlook it.»
Christos Kyriacou, The Journal of Value Inquiry
«The Practical Origins of Ideas is a substantial contribution of great value ... Queloz presents an important thesis: pragmatic genealogy not only acknowledges the legitimacy of both local historical genealogies and of genealogies that reconstruct an idealised starting situation, but also, and above all, enables us to see these two different approaches as two phases of a single pragmatic genealogical method.»
Matteo Santarelli, Iride