The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods [Hardcover]

This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.Acknowledgements
Notes On Contributors
Introduction And Historical Overview; Chris Daly
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
1. A Priori Analysis And The Methodological A Posteriori; David Braddon-Mitchell
2. The Failure Of Analysis And The Nature Of Concepts; Michael Huemer
3. Singular Ontology: How To; Alexis G. Burgess
4. Paradigms And Philosophical Progress; M. B. Willard
5. Disagreement In Philosophy; Jason Decker
6. Agnosticism About Ontology; Chris Daly And David Liggins
PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLANATION AND METHODOLOGY IN METAPHYSICS
7. Modality, Metaphysics And Method; Boris Kment
8. Explanation And Explication; Paul Audi
9. Empirically Grounded Philosophical Theorizing; Ot?vio Bueno And Scott A. Shalkowski
10. Et Tu, Brute?; Sam Baron
11. Properties Are Potatoes? An Essay On Ontological Parsimony; Nikk Effingham
12. Advice For Eleatics; Sam Cowling
13. Pragmatism Without Idealism; Robert Kraut And Kevin Scharp
PART III: INTUITION, PSYCHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
14. Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, And Conceptual Fixed Points; Matti Eklund
15. Thought Experiments And Experimental Philosophy; Joachim Horvath
16. Rationalizing Self-Interpretation; Laura Schroeter And Fran?ois Schroeter
17. Reclaiming The Armchair; Janet Levin
PART IV: METHOD, MIND AND EPISTEMOLOGY
18. Placement, Grounding And Mental Content; Kelly Trogdon
19. Theory Dualism And The Metalogic Of Miln