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Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy / Michael Strevens.
LIBRA B808.5 .S765 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strevens, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analysis (Philosophy).
- Empiricism.
- Induction (Logic).
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy's methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Philosophical knowledge
- Classical and modern conceptual analysis
- Other forms of conceptual analysis
- The psychology of philosophy
- Natural kind concepts
- Conceptual inductivism
- Inductivism versus conceptual analysis
- Inductive analysis
- Reference
- The travails of analysis
- Against essential natures
- Substance: basic natural kinds
- Substance: philosophical categories
- Learning without the senses
- The life and death of secondary categories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674986527
- 0674986520
- OCLC:
- 1028618202
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