ARMCHAIR PHILOSOPHY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201956223Keywords:
armchair philosophy, experimental philosophy, a priori, a posteriori, abduction, model-building, philosophical methodology, thought experimentsAbstract
The article presents an anti-exceptionalist view of philosophical methodology, on which it is much closer to the methodology of other disciplines than many philosophers like to think. Like mathematics, it is a science, but not a natural science. Its methods are notprimarily experimental, though it can draw on the results of natural science. Likefoundational mathematics, its methods are abductive as well as deductive. As in the natural sciences, much progress in philosophy consists in the construction of better models rather than in the discovery of new laws. We should not worry about whether philosophy is a priori or a posteriori, because the distinction is epistemologically superficial.
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2019-09-09
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2019. ARMCHAIR PHILOSOPHY. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 56, 2 (Sep. 2019), 19–25. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201956223.