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Author:
Strevens, Michael, author.
Title:
Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy / Michael Strevens.
Publisher:
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
345 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Analysis (Philosophy)
Empiricism.
Induction (Logic)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0674986520
9780674986527
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1028618202
LCCN:
2018014208
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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