Table of Contents

Introduction Søren Overgaard and Giuseppina D'Oro; Part I. Visions Of Philosophy: 1. Doing philosophy Alessandra Tanesini; 2. Philosophy as rational systematization Nicholas Rescher; 3. Sense-making from a human point of view Adrian Moore; 4. Disagreement in philosophy: an optimistic perspective Herman Cappelen; Part II. Conceptual Analysis and the Naturalistic Challenge: 5. Impure conceptual analysis Hans-Johann Glock; 6. What can we do, when we do metaphysics? Amie L. Thomasson; 7. Armchair metaphysics revisited: the three grades of involvement in conceptual analysis Frank Jackson; 8. A naturalistic methodology Hilary Kornblith; 9. What is negative experimental philosophy good for? Joanathan M. Weinberg; Part III. Between Analysis and the Continent: 10. Life-changing metaphysics: rational anthropology and its Kantian methodology Robert Hanna; 11. Collingwood's idealist metaontology: between therapy and armchair science Giuseppina D'oro; 12. Pragmatism and the limits of metaphilosophy Robert B. Talisse; 13. Metaphysical quietism and everyday life David Macarthur; 14. The metaphilosophy of the analytic-continental divide: from history to hope Robert Piercey; Part IV. Continental Perspectives: 15. Phenomenological method and the achievement of recognition: who's been waiting for phenomenology? David R. Cerbone; 16. Existentialist methodology and perspective: writing the first person Jack Reynolds and Patrick Stokes; 17. Hermeneutics and the question of method Kristin Gjesdal; 18. Critical theory's philosophy Fabian Freyenhagen; 19. An extension of deconstructionist methodology Leonard R. Lawlor; 20. Pathological experience: a challenge for transcendental constitution theory? Jean-Luc Petit.

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The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology provides clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy.

About the Author

Søren Overgaard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. His recent publications include Wittgenstein and Other Minds (2007) and An Introduction to Metaphilosophy (2013). Giuseppina D'Oro is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University. Her recent publications include Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (2002), Collingwood's An Essay on Philosophical Method (2005) and Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Anti-Causalism in the Philosophy of Action (2013).

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'What sets this Companion apart from other recent work on philosophical methodology is its perspective. The essays in this timely volume focus on three metaphilosophical domains - conceptual analysis in analytic philosophy, Continental methodologies, and methodologies lying at the analytic/Continental divide. … This excellent resource will be valuable to those interested in either metaphilosophy overall or one particular methodology. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' J. McBain, CHOICE