The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods / edited by Christopher Daly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daly, Christopher, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Economic conditions.

Asia.

Social sciences.

Humanities.

Asian Economics.

Humanities and Social Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Asian Economics.

Humanities and Social Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (705 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.

Contents:

Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction and Historical Overview; Part I Philosophical Inquiry: Problems and Prospects; 1 A Priori Analysis and the Methodological A Posteriori; 2 The Failure of Analysis and the Nature of Concepts; 3 Singular Ontology: How To; 4 Paradigms and Philosophical Progress; 5 Disagreement in Philosophy; 6 Agnosticism about Ontology; Part II Philosophical Explanation and Methodology in Metaphysics; 7 Modality, Metaphysics, and Method; 8 Explanation and Explication

9 Empirically Grounded Philosophical Theorizing10 Et Tu, Brute?; 11 Properties are Potatoes? An Essay on Ontological Parsimony; 12 Advice for Eleatics; 13 Pragmatism without Idealism; Part III Intuition, Psychology, and Experimental Philosophy; 14 Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Fixed Points; 15 Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy; 16 Rationalizing Self-Interpretation; 17 Reclaiming the Armchair; Part IV Method, Mind, and Epistemology; 18 Placement, Grounding, and Mental Content; 19 Theory Dualism and the Metalogic of Mind - Body Problems

20 Knowing How and 'Knowing How'21 Philosophy of Science and the Curse of the Case Study; 22 Three Degrees of Naturalism in the Philosophy of Science; Part V Metaethics and Normativity; 23 Against Pluralism in Metaethics; 24 Directly Plausible Principles; 25 Moral Inquiry and Mob Psychology; 26 The Methodological Irrelevance of Reflective Equilibrium; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786846990

1786846993

9781137344557

1137344555