The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

The Cambridge Companion To Philosophical Methodology Offers Clear And Comprehensive Coverage Of The Main Methodological Debates And Approaches Within Philosophy. The Chapters In This Volume Approach The Question Of How To Do Philosophy From A Wide Range Of Perspectives, Including Conceptual Analysis, Critical Theory, Deconstruction, Experimental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Kantianism, Methodological Naturalism, Phenomenology, And Pragmatism. They Explore General Conceptions Of Philosophy, Centred On The Question Of What The Point Of Philosophising Might Be; The Method Of Conceptual Analysis And Its Recent Naturalistic Critics And Competitors; Perspectives From Continental Philosophy; And Also A Variety Of Methodological Views That Belong Neither To The Mainstream Of Analytic Philosophy, Nor To Continental Philosophy As Commonly Conceived. Together They Will Enable Readers To Grasp An Unusually Wide Range Of Approaches To Methodological Debates In Philosophy. Introduction / Giuseppina D'oro And Søren Overgaard -- Part I. Visions Of Philosophy {u2013} 1. Doing Philosophy / Alessandra Tanesini -- 2 .philosophy As Rational Systematization / Nicholas Rescher {u2013} 3. Sense-making From A Human Point Of View / A. W. Moore {u2013} 4. Disagreement In Philosophy: An Optimistic Perspective / Herman Cappelen -- Part Ii. Conceptual Analysis And The Naturalistic Challenge {u2013} 5. Impure Conceptual Analysis / Hans-johann Glock {u2013} 6. What Can We Do, When We Do Metaphysics? / Amie L. Thomasson {u2013} 7. Armchair Metaphysics Revisited: The Three Grades Of Involvement In Conceptual Analysis / Frank Jackson -- .8 A Naturalistic Methodology / Hilary Kornblith {u2013} 9. What Is Negative Experimental Philosophy Good For? / Jonathan M. Weinberg -- Part Iii. Between Analysis And The Continent {u2013} 10. Life-changing Metaphysics: Rational Anthropology And Its Kantian Methodology / Robert Hanna {u2013} 11. Collingwood's Idealist Metaontology: Between Therapy And Armchair Science / Giuseppina D'oro {u2013} 12. Pragmatism And The Limits Of Metaphilosophy / Robert B. Talisse {u2013} 13. On Metaphysical Quietism And Everyday Life / David Macarthur {u2013} 14. The Metaphilosophy Of The Analytic-continental Divide: From History To Hope / Robert Piercey -- Part Iv. Continental Perspectives {u2013} 15. Phenomenological Method And The Achievement Of Recognition: Who's Been Waiting For Phenomenology? / David R. Cerbone {u2013} 16. Existentialist Methodology And Perspective: Writing The First Person / J. Reynolds And P. Stokes {u2013} 17. Hermeneutics And The Question Of Method / Kristin Gjesdal {u2013} 18. Critical Theory's Philosophy / Fabian Freyenhagen {u2013} 19. An Extension Of Deconstructionist Methodology / Leonard R. Lawlor {u2013} 20. Pathological Experience: A Challenge For Transcendental Constitution Theory? / Jean-luc Petit. Edited By Giuseppina D'oro And Søren Overgaard. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 418-449) And Index. The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology 1 Contents 7 List of Contributor 10 Acknowledgement 15 Introduction 17 Part I. Visions Of Philosophy 27 1. Doing philosophy 29 2. Philosophy as rational systematization 48 3. Sense-making from a human point of view 60 4. Disagreement in philosophy: an optimistic perspective 72 Part II. Conceptual Analysis and the Naturalistic Challenge 91 5. Impure conceptual analysis 93 6. What can we do, when we do metaphysics? 117 7. Armchair metaphysics revisited: the three grades of involvement in conceptual analysis 138 8. A naturalistic methodology 157 9. What is negative experimental philosophy good for? 177 Part III. Between Analysis and the Continent 201 10. Life-changing metaphysics: rational anthropology and its Kantian methodology 203 11. Collingwood's idealist metaontology: between therapy and armchair science 227 12. Pragmatism and the limits of metaphilosophy 245 13. Metaphysical quietism and everyday life 265 14. The metaphilosophy of the analytic-continental divide: from history to hope 290 Part IV. Continental Perspectives 309 15. Phenomenological method and the achievement of recognition: who's been waiting for phenomenology? 311 16. Existentialist methodology and perspective: writing the first person 333 17. Hermeneutics and the question of method 353 18. Critical theory's philosophy 372 19. An extension of deconstructionist methodology 395 20. Pathological experience: a challenge for transcendental constitution theory? 414 Bibliography 434 Index 466 Back-Matter 483