The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods [electronic resource] /
Daly, Christopher.editor.
This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.
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Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction and Historical Overview; Part I Philosophical Inquiry: Problems and Prospects; 1 A Priori Analysis and the Methodological A Posteriori; 2 The Failure of Analysis and the Nature of Concepts; 3 Singular Ontology: How To; 4 Paradigms and Philosophical Progress; 5 Disagreement in Philosophy; 6 Agnosticism about Ontology; Part II Philosophical Explanation and Methodology in Metaphysics; 7 Modality, Metaphysics, and Method; 8 Explanation and Explication
9 Empirically Grounded Philosophical Theorizing10 Et Tu, Brute?; 11 Properties are Potatoes? An Essay on Ontological Parsimony; 12 Advice for Eleatics; 13 Pragmatism without Idealism; Part III Intuition, Psychology, and Experimental Philosophy; 14 Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Fixed Points; 15 Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy; 16 Rationalizing Self-Interpretation; 17 Reclaiming the Armchair; Part IV Method, Mind, and Epistemology; 18 Placement, Grounding, and Mental Content; 19 Theory Dualism and the Metalogic of Mind - Body Problems
20 Knowing How and 'Knowing How'21 Philosophy of Science and the Curse of the Case Study; 22 Three Degrees of Naturalism in the Philosophy of Science; Part V Metaethics and Normativity; 23 Against Pluralism in Metaethics; 24 Directly Plausible Principles; 25 Moral Inquiry and Mob Psychology; 26 The Methodological Irrelevance of Reflective Equilibrium; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.
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