An Essay on Philosophical Method

An Essay on Philosophical Method
Author: R. G. Collingwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2005-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199280878

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"An Essay on Philosophical Method contains the most sustained discussion in the twentieth century of the subject matter and method of philosophy and an unparalleled explanation of why philosophy has a distinctive domain of enquiry that differs from that of the sciences of nature. This new edition of the Essay focuses on Collingwood's contribution to metaphilosophy and locates his argument for the autonomy of philosophy against the twentieth century trend to naturalize its subject matter. Collingwood argues that the distinctions which philosophers make, for example, between the concepts of duty and utility in moral philosophy, or between the concepts of mind and body in the philosophy of mind, are not empirical taxonomies that cut nature at the joints but semantic distinctions to which there may correspond no empirical classes. This identification of philosophical distinctions with semantic distinctions provides the basis for an argument against the naturalization of the subject matter of philosophy for it entails that not all concepts are empirical concepts and not all classifications are empirical classifications. Collingwood's explanation of why philosophy has a distinctive subject matter thus constitutes a clear challenge to the project of radical empiricism."--Book cover.

An Essay on Philosophical Method

An Essay on Philosophical Method
Author: Robin George Collingwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1950
Genre: Methodology
ISBN:

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An Essay on Philosophical Method

An Essay on Philosophical Method
Author: R. G. Collingwood
Publisher: St Augustine PressInc
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-10-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781587312281

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Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933. With new introduction.

Causal Realism

Causal Realism
Author: John C. Cahalan
Publisher: John C. Cahalan
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1985
Genre: Current Events
ISBN: 0819146226

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An Essay on Philosophical Method

An Essay on Philosophical Method
Author: R. G. Collingwood
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2005-05-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019156933X

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James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro present a new edition of R. G. Collingwood's classic work of 1933, supplementing the original text with important related writings from Collingwood's manuscripts which appear here for the first time. The editors also contribute a substantial new introduction. The volume will be welcomed by all historians of twentieth-century philosophy.

Austin's Way with Skepticism

Austin's Way with Skepticism
Author: Mark Kaplan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192558315

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J. L. Austin is famous for writing as if he thought it a condition, on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances. A durable consensus formed after Austin's death that his pursuit of epistemology faithful to 'ordinary language' was fundamentally misguided. While critics saw his methods as resulting from a failure properly to understand the nature of the epistemologist's project, Mark Kaplan argues that this consensus arose from a misreading of Austin. In Austin's Way with Skepticism: An Essay on Philosophical Method, he sets out his stance that both the condition of adequacy to which Austin was committed and his reason for being committed to it, have been misunderstood by his critics. Starting by carefully analysing what Austin said about knowledge in 'Other Minds,' examining the response to skeptical arguments, and taking seriously the methodological remarks Austin scattered in his corpus, Kaplan demonstrates that Austin's methods were not born of a misunderstanding of the project of epistemology. Rather, Austin was a powerful critique of how that project has been conceived though was not against epistemological theorizing itself. Kaplan concludes that Austin understood himself to be offering substantive answers to key epistemological questions and defending a way of doing epistemology that is fully capable of providing these important answers.