Intuition Imagination And Philosophical Methodology

Author : Tamar Szabó Gendler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191002291
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology written by Tamar Szabó Gendler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical discussions. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology. Each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier cases, and the general relation of conceivability to possibility. Each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. And each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations in illuminating philosophical issues.

Author : Tamar Gendler
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Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology written by Tamar Gendler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Serena Maria Nicoli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137567155
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Intuitions in Philosophical Methodology written by Serena Maria Nicoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of intuition in querying Socratic problems, the very nature of intuition itself, and whether it can be legitimately used to support or reject philosophical theses. The reader is introduced to questions connected to the use of intuition in philosophy through an analysis of two methods where the appeal to intuition is explicit: thought experiments and reflective equilibrium. In addition, the debate on the legitimacy of such an appeal is presented as connected to the discussion on the nature of the aims and results of philosophical inquiries. Finally, the main tenets and results of experimental philosophers are discussed, highlighting the methodological limits of such studies. Readers interested in the nature of intuition in philosophy will find this an invaluable and revealing resource.

Author : Tamar Szabo Gendler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113570693X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought Experiment written by Tamar Szabo Gendler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment. The author argues that the powers and limits of this methodology can be traced to the fact that when the contemplation of an imaginary scenario brings us to new knowledge, it does so by forcing us to make sense of exceptional cases.

Author : Herman Cappelen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199668779
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology written by Herman Cappelen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive book on philosophical methodology. A team of leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. They explore broad traditions and approaches, topics in philosophical methodology, and the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields.

Author : Herman Cappelen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199644861
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Without Intuitions written by Herman Cappelen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard view of philosophical methodology is that philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence. Herman Cappelen argues that this claim is false, and reveals how it has encouraged pseudo-problems, presented misguided ideas of what philosophy is, and misled exponents of metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy.

Author : Michael R. DePaul
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461643074
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Intuition written by Michael R. DePaul and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-10-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driven philosophical inquiry. Rethinking Intuition brings together a distinguished group of philosophers and psychologists to discuss these important issues. Students and scholars in both fields will find this book to be of great value.

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019871680X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Through Imagination written by Amy Kind and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination allows us to escape from the mundane and the real world, yet it also seems to furnish us with knowledge about that world-when we plan for the future, for instance. Ten original essays illuminate the epistemic role of imagination, blending perspectives from philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics.

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198810008
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Method: a Very Short Introduction written by Timothy Williamson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences. He also shows how logical rigour can be understood as a way of enhancing the explanatory power of philosophical theories. Drawing on the history of philosophy to provide a track record of philosophical thinking's successes and failures, Williams overturns widely held dogmas about the distinctive nature of philosophy in comparison to the sciences, demystifies its methods, and considers the future of the discipline. From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this Very Short Introduction will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Previously published in hardback as Doing Philosophy

Author : Joachim Horvath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135702926
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental Philosophy and its Critics written by Joachim Horvath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The ensuing experimental results, such as the cultural relativity of certain philosophical intuitions, has engaged – and at times infuriated – many more traditionally minded "armchair" philosophers since then. In this volume, the metaphilosophical reflection on experimental philosophy is brought yet another step forward by engaging some of its most renowned proponents and critics in a lively and controversial debate. In addition to that, the volume also contains original experimental research on personal identity and philosophical temperament, as well as state-of-the-art essays on central metaphilosophical issues, like thought experiments, the nature of intuitions, or the status of philosophical expertise. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Psychology.