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Ethnophilosophy as a global development goal Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-15 James Tartaglia
The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but this paper approaches the debate in search of lessons about philosophy in general. The paper shows how this ongoing debate has been obscured by varying understandings of “ethnophilosophy” and that a de facto victory has long since transpired, since “ethnophilosophy
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Libertarianism without alternative possibilities Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Joël Dolbeault
In the contemporary debate on free will, most philosophers assume that the defense of libertarianism implies the defense of the notion of alternative possibilities. This article discusses this presupposition by showing that it is possible to build a libertarianism without alternative possibilities, apparently more robust than libertarianism with alternative possibilities. Inspired by Bergson, this
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Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Rasmus Jaksland
The naturalized metaphysics promoted by Ladyman and Ross, among others, is often described as (neo)‐Quinean metaphysics. This association with Quine's naturalism can, however, give a misleading impression of the aims and commitments of this kind of naturalized metaphysics. Contrary to Quine, these naturalized metaphysicians endorse metaphysical realism and offer wholesale arguments in favor of the
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Good reasons to philosophize: On Hadot, Cooper, and ancient philosophical protreptic Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Matthew Sharpe
This paper reassesses the Cooper‐Hadot debate surrounding how students are converted to philosophy as a way of life (section 1) through engagement with philosophical protreptics. In section 2, the paper identifies the core “argument from finality” in philosophical protreptics seeking to convert non‐philosophers to philosophy, starting from the universal human interest in securing eudaimonia. In line
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Philosophy as dia‐philosophy: Hector‐Neri Castañeda's theoretical defense of pluralism Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Nevia Dolcini
This paper focuses on Hector‐Neri Castañeda's significant contributions to metaphilosophy. In his 1980 work, On Philosophical Method, Castañeda articulates a unique perspective, characterizing philosophy as fundamentally a dia‐philosophical activity. By asserting the supremacy of synthesis over analysis within the metaphilosophical hierarchy, his account provides a purely theoretical defense of philosophical
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Meta‐regresses and the limits of persuasive argumentation Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Guido Melchior
This paper provides a thorough analysis of two often informally stated claims. First, successful argumentation in the sense of persuasive argumentation requires agreement between the interlocutors about the rationality of arguments. Second, a general agreement about rationality of arguments cannot itself be established via argumentation, since such an attempt leads to an infinite meta‐regress. Hence
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The consequences of seeing imagination as a dual‐process virtue Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ingrid Malm Lindberg
Michael T. Stuart (2021 and 2022) has proposed imagination as an intellectual dual‐process virtue, consisting of imagination1 (underwritten by cognitive Type 1 processing) and imagination2 (supported by Type 2 processing). This paper investigates the consequences of taking such an account seriously. It proposes that the dual‐process view of imagination allows us to incorporate recent insights from
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Queue‐jumping arguments Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Andrew Aberdein, Kenneth R. Pike
A queue‐jumping argument concludes that some course of action is impermissible by likening it to the presumptively impermissible act of jumping a queue. Arguments of this sort may be found in a disparate range of contexts and in support of policies favoured by both left and right. Examples include arguments against private education and private health care but also arguments against accommodations
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Spiritual exercises and early modern philosophy: Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza By SimoneD'Agostino. Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. iv + 212 Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Matteo J. Stettler
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“It takes a village to write a really good paper”: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Samantha Copeland, Lavinia Marin
That there is a “crisis of peer review” at the moment is not in dispute, but sufficient attention has not yet been paid to the normative potential that lies in current calls for reform. In contrast to approaches to “fixing” the problems in peer review, which tend to maintain the status quo in terms of professionalising opportunities, this paper addresses the needs of philosophers and how peer‐review
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Ontological relativity and conceptual analysis as theoretical frameworks for epistemic injustice: Exploring applications Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Paolo Valore
This article introduces a novel theoretical framework for addressing epistemic injustice—a phenomenon where certain groups or individuals are systematically excluded from knowledge creation and dissemination processes—by employing ontological relativity and conceptual analysis. “Ontological relativity” refers to a philosophical perspective that posits our understanding of reality as being shaped by
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Academic hoaxes Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Andrew Sneddon
What are academic hoaxes, and what should we make of them? This paper argues that academic hoaxes are exercises in pretense, with a complex structure involving both a focal item and a self-revealing dimension, all governed by attitudes about the relevant sort of academic work, that are derivative yet different from the attitudes found in normal participation in publication. Hoaxes done primarily for
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Alternate conceptions of metaphysics Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-13 David Weissman
Metaphysics is the inquiry having categorial form as its aim. Once all but defunct, metaphysics has now revived, though without disciplinary focus. Nine points of entry dominate current studies, each separate from and largely oblivious to the others. This essay characterizes the nine, expressing its preference for a discipline grounded in the empirical sciences while pursuing issues they ignore.
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The psychopathology of metaphysics: Depersonalization and the problem of reality Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alexandre Billon
According to a common philosophical intuition, the deep nature of things is hidden from us, and the world as we know it through perception and science is, just like a dream, shadows, or a computer simulation, somehow shallow and lacking in reality. This “intuition of unreality” clashes with a strong, but perhaps more naive, intuition to the effect that the world as we know it seems perfectly real.
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Where do philosophers appeal to intuitions (if they do)? Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Richard Galvin, William Roche
It might be that intuitions are central to philosophy, and it might be that this is true because when philosophers give case-based arguments for philosophical claims (in published philosophy), the case verdict is typically (a) an intuited proposition and (b) either left undefended or defended on the grounds that it is an intuited proposition. This paper remains neutral on these global issues, however
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Some vices of vice epistemology Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Quassim Cassam
The actual or potential epistemic vices of a given discipline or field of study are its disciplinary vices. This paper identifies three actual or potential disciplinary vices of vice epistemology. Vice epistemology explains people's epistemic misconduct by reference to their supposed epistemic vices. Such vice explanations are contrasted with attempts to achieve Verstehen of people's epistemic conduct
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Protohistory: Unending intuitions Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Idowu Odeyemi
Philosophers ponder on how to do philosophy and how to do it well. This pondering has divided metaphilosophers' concern about philosophical methodology into two groups, which we could label “pro-history” and “pro-intuition.” The claim (and belief) of philosophers who are in the “pro-history” group can be found in this sentence by Robert Pasnau (2011): “The discipline of philosophy benefits from a serious
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Comparing language and religion in normative arguments about linguistic justice Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-17 François Boucher
Many of the most influential theorists of linguistic justice make arguments on the basis of comparisons between language and religion. They claim either that (1) language, by contrast with religion, cannot be separated from the state or that (2) unequal official linguistic recognition, just like unequal official religious recognition, is morally problematic. This article argues that careful attention
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Immigrant linguistic justice: The lay of the land Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Helder De Schutter, Seunghyun Song
Linguistic justice is concerned with the just way of politically regulating linguistic diversity. Today, the linguistic-justice debate may be differentiated into three different domains: interlinguistic justice, intralinguistic justice, and global linguistic justice. Each of these domains has, to a significant extent, attracted different authors and debates, although the normative system underlying
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Structural linguistic injustice Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Seunghyun Song
This paper develops a concept of structural linguistic injustice. By employing the so-called structural-injustice approach, it argues that individuals' seemingly harmless language attitudes and language choices might enable serious harms on a collective level, constituting what one could call a structural linguistic injustice. Section 1 introduces the linguistic-justice debate. By doing so, it establishes
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Avowal under oppression Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Sydney Maxwell
Leading expressivist proposals characterize the mental state expressed in the making of a normative judgment solely in terms of intrinsic, psychological dispositions. As a result, they fail to capture a subset of the normative judgments that agents can and do make; they miss the way that external factors can influence what the making of a normative judgment looks like. This problem can be seen most
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The integration problem for naive realism Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Ivan V. Ivanov
This paper makes explicit the basic problem perfect hallucinations pose for perceptual naive realists, more fundamental than the well-trodden Screening-off Problem. The deeper problem offers the basis for an overarching classification of the available naive- realist-friendly approaches to perfect hallucinations. In the course of laying out the challenges to the different types of response, the paper
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Pre-departure language requirements for family reunification Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tamara van den Berg
This paper argues that pre-departure language requirements for family reunification are unjustified. Such requirements are assumed to safeguard (1) the non-instrumental cultural interests of citizens of the receiving society and (2) the instrumental language interests of both citizens and immigrants, for democratic life and political participation. The paper explores nationalist and multiculturalist
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Discursive pluralism: Inferentialist expressivism and the integration challenge Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Pietro Salis
Discursive pluralism, recently fostered by anti-representationalist views, by stating that not all assertions conform to a descriptive model of language, poses an interesting challenge to representationalism. Although in recent years alethic pluralism has become more and more popular as an interesting way out for this issue, the discussion also hosts other interesting minority approaches in the an
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Frank Ebersole on Wittgenstein and Pictures in Philosophy Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Leonidas Tsilipakos
How do we get into trouble in philosophy, and what do pictures have to do with it? This article addresses Frank Ebersole's thoughts on (Wittgenstein's remarks on) pictures in philosophy. It identifies the puzzlement generated for Ebersole by what Wittgenstein says and also considers some puzzling aspects of Ebersole's own renderings of pictures. It distinguishes between the philosophical picture and
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The practical ethics of linguistic integration: Three challenges Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Yael Peled
Public debates on linguistic integration as a socially desired outcome often share a prevailing sentiment that newcomers ought to “learn the language.” But the intensity of that sentiment is rarely accompanied by an equally robust understanding of what, precisely, it means in practice. This results in a notion of linguistic integration with an inbuilt tension between a seemingly pragmatic and commonsensical
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Stylistic appearances and linguistic diversity Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Filippo Contesi
Philosophy is beginning to pay problems of linguistic justice the attention they deserve in today's heavily interconnected and migrant world. Contemporary philosophy itself, however, has a particular problem of linguistic justice that deserves metaphilosophical attention. At least in the philosophical tradition that is mainstream in much of the world today, viz., analytic philosophy, methodological
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Towards a topological philosophy Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Bartłomiej Skowron, Janusz Kaczmarek, Krzysztof Wójtowicz
This article examines the use of mathematical concepts in philosophy, focusing on topology, which may be viewed as a modern supplement to geometry. We show that Plato and Parmenides were already employing geometric ideas in their research, and discuss three examples of the application of topology to philosophical problems: the first concerns the analysis of the Cartesian distinction between res extensa
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Linguistic prejudice and electoral discrimination: What can political theory learn from sociolinguistics? Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Matteo Bonotti, Louisa Willoughby
Normative political theorists working in the field of linguistic justice generally believe that participation in democratic life in linguistically diverse societies requires a shared lingua franca (e.g., Patten 2009; Van Parijs 2011). Even when a shared lingua franca is present, however, there is likely to be a variety of ways in which people speak it, due to variations in accent, pitch, register,
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Detection of words versus good old counting: A note on Mizrahi and Dickinson, “The analytic-continental divide in philosophical practice” Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Hugo Dirk Hogenbirk
In a recent Metaphilosophy article, Moti Mizrahi and Michael Dickinson argue against characterizing the divide between analytical and continental philosophy as a divide in the use of arguments. This hypothesis is rejected on the basis of a text-mining approach. The present paper argues that the results they extracted do not answer the questions they set out to answer as well as would have been possible
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Philosophers ought to develop, theorize about, and use philosophically relevant AI Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Graham Clay, Caleb Ontiveros
The transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to philosophy—the only question is the degree to which philosophers will harness it. This paper argues that the application of AI tools to philosophy could have an impact on the field comparable to the advent of writing, and that it is likely that philosophical progress will significantly increase as a consequence of AI. The role of
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Empirical tests of scientific realism: A quantitative framework Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-05 James W. McAllister
The scientific realism debate in philosophy of science raises some intriguing methodological issues. Scientific realism posits a link between a scientific theory's observational and referential success. This opens the possibility of testing the thesis empirically, by searching for evidence of such a link in the record of theories put forward in the history of science. Many realist philosophers working
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The value of philosophy: A Canguilhemian perspective Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Anton Vydra
This paper represents a philosophical reflection on the nature and value of philosophy itself. Georges Canguilhem somewhat scandalously argued that the fundamental value of philosophy does not lie in truth. He suggests that truth is a typical value of science because truth is what science says and what is said scientifically. Why would a philosopher depreciate his own discipline? And does he really
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Truth and consequences Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Polly Mitchell, Alan Cribb, Vikki Entwistle
In his 1987 paper “Truth or Consequences,” Dan Brock describes a deep conflict between the goals and virtues of philosophical scholarship and public policymaking: whereas the former is concerned with the search for truth, the latter must primarily be concerned with promoting good consequences. When philosophers are engaged in policymaking, he argues, they must shift their primary goal from truth to
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I through thou, and we through I: Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla on the personal foundation of community Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Lasha Matiashvili
This article is an attempt to scrutinize the phenomenological social ontology of Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla by drawing on the particular role and nature of interpersonal relatedness and second-person engagement in the constitution of first-person-plural perspective. Both Hildebrand and Wojtyla endorse the unique value of the person and personality as the foundational principle for different
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Outgrowing representationalism: Semantic remarks on Tracy Llanera's Richard Rorty: Outgrowing modern nihilism Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi
This article provides a semantic reading of Tracy Llanera's brilliant book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism. Llanera is reframing the debate of how to react to the malaise of modern nihilism by proposing a change of metaphor: instead of trying to “overcome” nihilism, we should try to “outgrow” nihilism. This article invites Llanera to shed more light on her project with respect to the semantic
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A socio-epistemological program for the philosophy of regulatory science Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Guillermo Marín Penella
This paper presents a program of action for the philosophy of regulatory science, based on a general theory of social epistemology. Two candidates are considered. The first one, offered by Alvin Goldman, is not fit for our purposes because it is focused on a veritism incompatible with non-epistemic aims of regulatory science. The second, championed by Steve Fuller, sociologically investigates the existing
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Rortyan therapists, pragmatist engineers, and white nationalist egotists: A response to Huckerby, Huetter-Almerigi, and Showler Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Tracy Llanera
This essay is a reply to commentaries by Elin Danielsen Huckerby, Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi, and Paul Showler on Tracy Llanera's Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism (2020).
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Socialising epistemic risk: On the risks of epistemic injustice Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Veli Mitova
Epistemic risk is of central importance to epistemology nowadays: one common way in which a belief can fail to be knowledge is by being formed in an epistemically risky way, that is, a way that makes it true by luck. Recently, epistemologists have been expanding this rather narrow conception of risk in every direction, except arguably the most obvious one—to enable it to accommodate the increasingly
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Redemption, transcendence, and spirituality, or ease, hope, and comfort? On Llanera's strong redescription of Rorty Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Elin Danielsen Huckerby
In Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Tracy Llanera places Richard Rorty in conversation with philosophers confronting nihilism as a “malaise of modernity.” She shows how Rortyan thought offers a horizontal and relational approach to “redemption,” as opposed to religious or philosophical paths to be saved by higher beings or ideas. This essay focuses on Llanera's redescription of Rorty and
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Take care of egotism, and redemption will take care of itself: Comments on Tracy Llanera's Richard Rorty: Outgrowing modern nihilism Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Paul D. G. Showler
This commentary critically examines two facets of Tracy Llanera's recent book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism. First, it considers her interpretation of Richard Rorty's redemptive project. It argues that, while Llanera succeeds in resolving tensions in Rorty's public-private distinction, her account downplays the role of abnormal discourse within projects of self-creation. Second, it raises
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Philosophy as a thief? Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Randall Auxier
This is a performative piece of writing in the presence of and inspired by Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and the Art of Writing. It tries to show that the relationship between the act of writing and the formation of our human consciousness (philosophical and, more deeply, poietic) is a developing and growing process through history, and before it. The dominance of an image consciousness was slowly
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The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Charles Johnson
This response to Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and the Art of Writing focuses on his concern that philosophy is, first and foremost, a way of life, illustrated in the West by the Socratic ideal of the philosopher and in the East by the example of the scholar-artist-gentleman. This paper examines the process of Buddhist meditation and the process of creating novels, supplementing the authors Shusterman
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Philosophy, writing, and liberation Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Richard Shusterman
In responding to the three creative interpretive discussions in the symposium on my book Philosophy and the Art of Writing, this paper explores the different styles of philosophical discourse and their role in the practice of philosophy as a way of life that extends beyond the discursive and that combines self-cultivation with care for others in the ethical-aesthetic pursuit of living beauty. In advocating
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The philosophical way of life as sub-creation Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Eli Kramer
Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and the Art of Writing suggests something vital about the tension between philosophical discourses that cannot capture or be the full meaning of living a life in relation to wisdom, and lived philosophies that cannot do away with discourses to deepen a lived experience beyond them: that philosophy as “an embodied way of life” is a sub-creation that emerges from the tension
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Introduction to symposium on Philosophy and the art of writing by Richard Shusterman Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Eli Kramer
This introductory piece provides context for this symposium on Richard Shusterman's new book, Philosophy and the Art of Writing. The piece reflects on the symposium genre from Plato's classic dialogue to its form today. It claims that Shusterman's work asks us to take this kind of philosophical writing more seriously, and for that reason the symposium itself has taken on a different structure. The
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Philosophical virtues Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Quassim Cassam
It has been suggested that philosophers should adopt a methodology largely inspired by mathematics and that the “mathematical” virtues of rigor, clarity, and precision are also fundamental philosophical virtues. In reply, this paper argues that some excellent philosophy lacks these virtues and that too much emphasis on the mathematical virtues excludes potentially valuable forms of philosophical discourse
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Philosophy and the real reasons for action: G. H. von Wright's understanding explanations Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Jonas Ahlskog
According to the received view, philosophy of action took a justified turn towards causalism because anti-causalists failed the causalist challenge about efficacious reasons. This paper contests that view by examining the ways in which Georg Henrik von Wright responded to causalism in his later philosophy. First, von Wright attacked the subjectivism of causalism by arguing for an objectivist view that
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Existence and the existential quantifier Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Gabriel Oak Rabin
This paper draws a distinction between the existential quantifier and the symbol ‘∃’ used to express it, on the one hand, and existence and ‘exists’, on the other. It argues that some popular arguments in metaphysics, including arguments against vague existence and arguments against deflationary metaontology (which views ontological disputes as lacking substance), are guilty of fudging this distinction
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There's a certain slant of light: Three attitudes toward the political turn in analytic philosophy Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Manuel Almagro, Sergio Guerra
There has been a growing interest within analytic philosophy in addressing political and social issues, which has been referred to as the “political turn” in the discipline. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it discusses the very characterization of the political turn. In particular, it introduces the definition proposed by Bordonaba-Plou, Fernández-Castro, and Torices, suggests that we should
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Richard Rorty's realism Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-23 William James Earle
An examination of late Rorty shows that he does not abandon belief in an external world about which we can, and indeed must, acquire knowledge. His disapproval of the correspondence theory of truth does not involve the idea that anything other than local weather, for example, could falsify remarks about local weather. It is just that once we get done looking out the window or, if we are outside, feeling
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Open-mindedness and ajar-mindedness in history of philosophy Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Michael Beaney
INTRODUCTION Open-mindedness is generally regarded as a paradigm intellectual virtue, with closed-mindedness the corresponding vice. Open-mindedness is clearly a virtue in both philosophy and history of philosophy. We should be open to as many different views as possible and take them seriously both in forming and arguing for our own and in expounding and evaluating those of others. Yet open-mindedness
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Introduction to the symposium “What makes a philosopher (good or bad)? Philosophical virtues and vices: Past and present” Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Lukas M. Verburgt
The main ambition of the eight articles in this collection is to bring together two currently distinct bodies of literature—on scholarly virtues and vices in the sciences and the humanities, and on epistemic virtues and vices—and to jointly connect them to recent work in (revisionary) historiography of philosophy. This introduction briefly reflects on this ambition, providing background and context
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“Changing” one's mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Massimiliano Simons
This article argues that historical epistemology offers the history of philosophy and science more than a mere tool to write the history of concepts. It does this, first of all, by rereading historical epistemology through Michel Foucault's “techniques of the self.” Second, it turns to the work of Léon Brunschvicg and Gaston Bachelard. In their work we see a proposal for what the subjectivity of scientists
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On the inseparability of reasoning and virtue: Madame de Maintenon's Maison royale de Saint-Louis Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Lisa Shapiro
This paper engages with the curriculum at Madame de Maintenon's school for girls at Saint-Cyr to raise and address a set of questions: What is it to teach someone to reason? The curricular materials of Saint-Cyr suggest that learning to reason is a matter of practice. How is one to distinguish autonomous reason giving from habituation or automatic trained responses? How can practices in reason giving
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“Bad philosophy” and “derivative philosophy”: Labels that keep women out of the canon Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Sophia M. Connell, Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Efforts to include women in the canon have long been beset by reactionary gatekeeping, typified by the charge “That's not philosophy.” That charge doesn't apply to early and mid-analytic female philosophers—Welby, Ladd-Franklin, Bryant, Jones, de Laguna, Stebbing, Ambrose, MacDonald—with job titles like lecturer in logic and professor of philosophy and publications in Mind, the Journal of Philosophy
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Creativity and genius as epistemic virtues: Kant and early post-Kantians on the teachability of epistemic virtue Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Paul Ziche
There is a classical paradox in education that also affects the epistemic virtues: the paradox inherent in the demand to develop general strategies for training persons to be free and creative individuals. This problem becomes particularly salient with respect to the epistemic virtue of creativity, the more so if we consider a radical form of creativity, namely, genius. This paper explores a historical
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The Icarus flight of speculation: Philosophers' vices as perceived by nineteenth-century historians and physicists Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Sjang ten Hagen, Herman Paul
Why did nineteenth-century German historians and physicists habitually warn against vices that they believed philosophers in particular embodied: speculation, absence of common sense, and excessive systematizing? Drawing on a rich array of sources, this article interprets this vice-charging as a rhetorical practice aimed at delineating empirical research from Naturphilosophie and Geschichtsphilosophie
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On critical African philosophy: Mapping the boundaries of a good philosophical tradition Metaphilosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Adeshina Afolayan
This essay deploys the existence of epistemic vices in the trajectory of Western philosophy to map the erasures and complicities that accompanied the emergence of contemporary African philosophy (CAP1). It argues that the complicity of CAP1 in the hyperspecialization and academic self-absorption that marked the professionalization of Western philosophy, makes it difficult to attend to the conditions