Questions tagged [metaphilosophy]
Metaphilosophy is the philosophical study of philosophy itself — its goals, methods, scope, and relationship to other intellectual disciplines or human projects.
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Is there a word for the type of rhetorical strategy where you distract from the point in order to seem authoritative?
Is there a word for distracting someone from the topic of the argument, and using the authority they have established in the mean time to (fallaciously) prove their original point?
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Are there degrees of rationality/plausibility to assumptions?
There are many kinds of premises, in every possible field. I'll limit this question to metaphysics, although it can definitely be applied to each and every scientific/philosophical study.
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What does (the justification of) metaphilosophical pluralism consist in?
Logical pluralism means some sort of openness to, or even going between, multiple theories/systems of logic. Like a fluid logical eclecticism, perhaps (I am not tracking the inclusivism/pluralism ...
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About the world as representation
In "The World as Will and Representation", how can Schopenhauer say that the world is a representation if he himself EXISTS in his representation of the world? Isn't there a contradiction in ...
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Is there a taxonomy of disagreement types?
In philosophy, is there any type of taxonomy of types of disagreements? For example, I want students to look at varying takes on a subject. What I want them to focus on is, Why do such smart people ...
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Deductive methodology in philosophy
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Mathematics uses deductive methodology to produce results called theorems that are indisputable truth by logical necessity, with respect to the axioms of the starting axioms and ...
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Which philosophers have left sucessful academic careers to pursue other work?
I'm looking for (names of) philosophers who had successful careers in academia but, for whatever set of reasons, chose to leave and pursue work outside of academia, even if only temporarily.
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How does contemporary analytic philosophy reply to the late Wittgenstein's injunction against theory?
In the In Our Time episode on Wittgenstein philosopher Ray Monk says the following:
It's a central view of the later Wittgenstein that there can be no such thing as a philosophical theory. I think ...
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Collingwood, existence of God and its relation to natural science
I am reading Collingwood's essay in metaphysics and I have hard time in understanding his argument to the conclusion that Catholic Faith consists in (part) of absolute presuppositions of Greek thought ...
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Does Psychology benefit Philosophy?
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It is widely held that Philosophy precedes the Sciences, birthing them. and continue to inform them. It is also evident that there are times when science has informed ...
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Can you list other Collingwood's Absolute Presuppositions?
Robin G. Collingwood's posited the existence of absolute presuppositions (AS). As a reminder, presuppositions are for Collingwood assumptions and guiding precepts that are closed to further analysis ...
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Is Constant Growth of the former Hegelian Dewey not the new Hegelian Absolute?
John Dewey, the former Hegelian, having got rid of the Hegelian religion and fearing to adopt a different one said that the guarantee of not doing that wound be constant growth as the absolute value ...
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Is the Anglo-Analytical tradition founded on rejecting the principle of sufficient reason?
In this blog-post on a criticism of Nagels book Mind & Cosmos the author makes the assertion:
This is no surprise because analytical philosophy was founded in the act of rejecting PSR. Our ...
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Do philosophers talk about "philosophical judgment"
Does 'philosophical judgment' exist? I studied philosophy at undergrad, and I think I learnt how to judge an argument, not simply as sound or cogent, but "interesting", which arguments are ...
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When to axiomatize an informal theory?
We axiomatize a theory when there are evident truths from which we can derive other truths by a previously defined set of rules of inference. Since Frege, though, a lot have changed and mathematics is ...
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Has anyone described etc. Ataraxia from not asking needless questions?
Has anyone described etc. Ataraxia from not asking needless questions? I am most familiar with the idea of ataraxy from Epicurus
if one is frightened by the empty name of death, the fear will persist
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Is there a computer program that we could create which would, with 10-minute daily use, accelerate our ability to master the skill of philosophizing?
This summer I built this study aid for myself and STEM students to generate math problems so I can drill the art of problem solving with pen and paper. I don't see why there couldn't be a ...
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Identity of concepts' intentional content
I have recently read some articles about (lexical) concepts. Philosophers tend to think that, in order for two speakers to be able to communicate successfully, they must associate the exact same ...
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Concepts possession conditions
As a consequence of my growing interest in epistemology, I recently read some articles about concepts. The authors were originating from different fields, such as philosophy of mind, language and ...
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Do all "meta" questions within philosophy reduce to descriptive and normative?
At first, under "meta" I, of course, mean such things as metaphilosophy, metaethics, and some other "metas" trying to answer the questions "What is X?", "What properties does X have?", etc. And this ...
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Are there any limits to a priori research except imagination?
Philosophers through history have done many researches on "a priori" concepts and ideas, the most influential one today might be Kant, but of course many influential philosophers have taken such ...
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The line between science and philosophy - current status
(I know some will reject the idea of having a "line" between science and philosophy, but I don't want these answers, let's assume there is.)
We often draw a line between science and philosophy that ...
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Why do we seek to "limit" our scope for the search after truth?
In philosophy and science, we quite often make systematic approaches that limits our thoughts to be as accurate as possible.
Examples are endless - basically every logical system, every ...
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Do (any) philosophers worry if there can be a priori truths about a changing world?
Do (any) philosophers question how there can be a priori truths about a changing world -- has anyone worried whether this is possible, or if those different modes, of timeless truth and contingent ...
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The scope of Analytic discussion about sentences
Kripke and Quine argue both for 2 different ideas (about which I will write shortly) but their objectives are common - to say something about the nature of sentences. Yet, It seems to me like they don'...
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How should non-philosophers approach learning about philosophical things?
I believe that the 'proper' method for a nonscientist to learn about scientific things is to basically refer to the level of scientific consensus on a subject, yet there seems to be considerably less ...
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Can our creativity create probability for reality? How legitimate is modal realism?
That title is so wild but if you create say a cartoon and that universe. Does that open up the possibility that it exists somewhere in reality? Like it is now a universe that exists because you ...
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Is there a quantitative measure for a philosopher's skill?
Obviously, the property you should be interested in here is fame.
Below a ranking of the philosophers included in Leiter's list, sorted
by fame (measured in dBHa, the international logarithmic unit of ...
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Is human thought a Continuum?
Plato probably would not have existed had it not been for Pythagoras and Socrates. Augustine would not have produced his writings had it not been for Plotinus and Aristotle. Einstein would not have ...
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