The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

by Herman Cappelen (Editor), Tamar Szabó Gendler (Editor), John Hawthorne (Editor)

Overview

This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental arguments. The third part of the book is devoted to essays about the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields, including those of mathematics, psychology, literature and film, and neuroscience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191646010
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/07/2016
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	688
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Research Director at CSMN (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. Tamar Szabó Gendler is the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at Yale University. John Hawthorne is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

I. Background
1. What is Philosophical Methodology?, Josh Dever
II. Traditions and Approaches
2. The Methodology of the History of Philosophy, Calvin Normore
3. Methodology in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy, Scott Soňames
4. Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Post-Kantian Philosophy, Paul Franks
5. Logical Empiricism, Chris Pincock
6. Ordinary Language Philosophy, Avner Baz
7. Wittgenstein's Global Deflationism, Paul Horwich
8. Philosophical Naturalism, Hilary Kornblith
9. Method in Analytic Metaphysics, Daniel Nolan
10. Phenomenology, Taylor Carman
11. The Pragmatic Method, Henry Jackman
III. Topics
12. Reflective Equilibrium, Yuri Cath
13. Analytic-Synthetic and A Priori-A Posteriori, Brian Weatherson
14. Philosophical and Conceptual Analysis, Jeff King
15. Modeling, Michael Weisberg
16. Intuitions, Jonathan Weinberg
17. Philosophical Progress, Gary Gutting
18. Conceivability and Possibility, Chris Hill
19. Philosophical Heuristics and Philosophical Methodology, Alan Hajek
20. Disagreement in Philosophy: Its Epistemic Significance, Tom Kelly
21. Faith and Reason, Linda Zagzebski
22. Experimental Philosophy, Ron Mallon
23. Transcendental Arguments, Derk Pereboom
IV. Philosophy and is Neighbours
24. Physics and Method, Laura Ruetsche
25. Linguistic and Philosophical Methodology, Peter Ludlow
26. History of Ideas: A Defense, Fred Beiser
27. The Methodology of Political Theory, Christian List and Laura Valentini
28. Philosophy and Psychology, Louise Antony and Georges Rey
29. Neuroscience, Adina L. Roskies
30. Logic and Philosophical Methodology, John Burgess
31. Philosophy of mathematics: issues and methods, Stewart Shapiro
32. Methods in the Philosophy of Literature and Film, Gregory Currie
33. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Dominic Lopes
34. The Methodology of Legal Philosophy, Alex Langlinais and Brian Leiter
35. Feminism, Ishani Maitra
36. Critical Philosophy of Race, Charles Mills

Editorial Reviews

"the new Oxford edition is, in my opinion, essential reading for philosophers and students interested in metaphilosophy. It contains a host of articles written by specialists who address a wide array of topics and disciplines within the field itself." — Jason M. Constanzo, Philosophy in Review

"Outstanding and timely...There is no better place than this volume for graduate students and professional philosophers to get a sophisticated introduction to recent debates about philosophical methods. Some of the contributions not only provide helpful surveys of recent debates but also help push those debates forward, if not by offering entirely novel arguments at least by summarizing and extending important arguments that the authors have made previously...This volume not only contains many compelling attempts to address methodologically important questions...but it will also serve as a guidepost and springboard for future work on such issues for years to come." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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