Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy /
Strevens, Michael,
Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy / Michael Strevens. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Philosophical knowledge -- Classical and modern conceptual analysis -- Other forms of conceptual analysis -- The psychology of philosophy -- Natural kind concepts -- Conceptual inductivism -- Inductivism versus conceptual analysis -- Inductive analysis -- Reference -- The travails of analysis -- Against essential natures -- Substance: basic natural kinds -- Substance: philosophical categories -- Learning without the senses -- The life and death of secondary categories.
In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy's methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.--
9780674986473
Analysis (Philosophy)
Empiricism.
Induction (Logic)
Electronic Books.
B808 / .T456 2019
Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy / Michael Strevens. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Philosophical knowledge -- Classical and modern conceptual analysis -- Other forms of conceptual analysis -- The psychology of philosophy -- Natural kind concepts -- Conceptual inductivism -- Inductivism versus conceptual analysis -- Inductive analysis -- Reference -- The travails of analysis -- Against essential natures -- Substance: basic natural kinds -- Substance: philosophical categories -- Learning without the senses -- The life and death of secondary categories.
In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy's methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.--
9780674986473
Analysis (Philosophy)
Empiricism.
Induction (Logic)
Electronic Books.
B808 / .T456 2019