The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Cambridge University Press, 2/16/2017
EAN 9781107121522, ISBN10: 1107121523

Hardcover, 496 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Language: English

The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology offers clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The chapters in this volume approach the question of how to do philosophy from a wide range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, deconstruction, experimental philosophy, hermeneutics, Kantianism, methodological naturalism, phenomenology, and pragmatism. They explore general conceptions of philosophy, centred on the question of what the point of philosophising might be; the method of conceptual analysis and its recent naturalistic critics and competitors; perspectives from continental philosophy; and also a variety of methodological views that belong neither to the mainstream of analytic philosophy, nor to continental philosophy as commonly conceived. Together they will enable readers to grasp an unusually wide range of approaches to methodological debates in philosophy.

Introduction Søren Overgaard and Giuseppina D'Oro
Part I. Visions Of Philosophy
1. Doing philosophy Alessandra Tanesini
2. Philosophy as rational systematization Nicholas Rescher
3. Sense-making from a human point of view Adrian Moore
4. Disagreement in philosophy
an optimistic perspective Herman Cappelen
Part II. Conceptual Analysis and the Naturalistic Challenge
5. Impure conceptual analysis Hans-Johann Glock
6. What can we do, when we do metaphysics? Amie L. Thomasson
7. Armchair metaphysics revisited
the three grades of involvement in conceptual analysis Frank Jackson
8. A naturalistic methodology Hilary Kornblith
9. What is negative experimental philosophy good for? Joanathan M. Weinberg
Part III. Between Analysis and the Continent
10. Life-changing metaphysics
rational anthropology and its Kantian methodology Robert Hanna
11. Collingwood's idealist metaontology
between therapy and armchair science Giuseppina D'oro
12. Pragmatism and the limits of metaphilosophy Robert B. Talisse
13. Metaphysical quietism and everyday life David Macarthur
14. The metaphilosophy of the analytic-continental divide
from history to hope Robert Piercey
Part IV. Continental Perspectives
15. Phenomenological method and the achievement of recognition
who's been waiting for phenomenology? David R. Cerbone
16. Existentialist methodology and perspective
writing the first person Jack Reynolds and Patrick Stokes
17. Hermeneutics and the question of method Kristin Gjesdal
18. Critical theory's philosophy Fabian Freyenhagen
19. An extension of deconstructionist methodology Leonard R. Lawlor
20. Pathological experience
a challenge for transcendental constitution theory? Jean-Luc Petit.