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1 online resource |
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Cover -- PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY: From Data to Theory -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction -- 1: The Nature of Inquiry -- 1. The Structure of Inquiry -- 2. The Goals of Inquiry -- 3. Theoretical Understanding -- 2: Philosophical Data -- 1. Four Features of Data -- 2. The Theory-Ladennessof Data -- 3. Three Theories of Data -- 3.1 The sociological theory -- 3.2 The metaphysical theory -- 3.3 The psycho-linguistictheory -- 3: The Epistemic Theory of Data -- 1. The Epistemic Theory -- 2. The Process of Data Collection |
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3. Data Imposters, Data Disablers -- 4: The Question of Method -- 1. Two Data about Method -- 2. A Third Datum -- 2.1 Methodological trends in recent philosophy -- 2.2 The rudiments of a sound method -- 3. Extant Methods -- 4. Room for Improvement -- 4.1 Handling the three data about method -- 4.2 Delivering inquiry's ultimate proper goal -- 4.3 Remedies? -- 5: The Tri-LevelMethod -- 1. Level One: Handling the Data -- 1.1 The Accommodation Criterion -- 1.2 The Explanation Criterion -- 1.3 On the relation between the first two criteria -- 2. Level Two: Grounding the Theory |
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2.1 The Substantiation Criterion -- 2.2 The Integration Criterion -- 2.3 On the relation between the first two levels -- 3. Level Three: Highlighting the Virtues -- 4. A Brief Illustration -- 5. Answering the Question of Method -- 6: Philosophical Progress -- 1. The How-Toand Evaluative Questions -- 1.1 Answering the how-toquestion -- 1.2 Answering the evaluative question -- 2. The Existential and Comparative Questions -- 2.1 Fundamental vs. foremost questions -- 2.2 Shared frameworks -- 2.3 Forms of noetic progress -- 2.4 Illustrating noetic progress -- 2.5 The role of the Tri-LevelMethod |
| Summary |
Philosophical Methodology offers an up-to-date assessment of different methods of doing philosophy, and develops a novel account of the structure and goals of inquiry. It allows philosophers and students of philosophy to better understand their topics, and shows how philosophy can continue to make progress in answering its central questions |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed February 28, 2023) |
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Methodology.
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Methods
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methodology.
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Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cuneo, Terence, author.
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Shafer-Landau, Russ, author.
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| ISBN |
9780192676672 |
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0192676679 |
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9780191953538 |
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0191953539 |
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9780192676665 |
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0192676660 |
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