The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology
Abstract
This book examines the nature of philosophical methodology, defined as the study of philosophical method: how to do philosophy well. It considers a number of hypotheses that explain the nature of philosophical methodology, including eliminativism, epistemologism, theory selectionism, necessary preconditionalism, and hierarchicalism. It also tackles a range of topics such as ‘ordinary language philosophy’, the role of logic in philosophical methodology, phenomenology, philosophical heuristics, and methods in the philosophy of literature and film. Other chapters discuss the method of reflective equilibrium, the notions of conceivability and possibility, naturalistic approaches to philosophical methodology, the methodology of legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of art as branches of analytic philosophy, issues and methods in the philosophy of mathematics, how and whether faith conflicts with reason, and critical philosophy of race.
Keywords:
philosophical methodology,
logic,
phenomenology,
reflective equilibrium,
legal philosophy,
aesthetics,
mathematics,
faith,
reason,
philosophy of race
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199668779
- Published online:
- Aug 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668779.001.0001
Editors
Herman Cappelen,
editor
Herman Cappelen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he works at The Arché Philosophical Research Centre.
Tamar Szabó Gendler,
editor
Tamar Szabó Gendler is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, Yale University.
John Hawthorne,
editor
John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California
