Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy

Michael Strevens

Published by Harvard University Press 2019

Thinking Off Your Feet

How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy

Michael Strevens

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674986473

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About this book

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.

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Thinking Off Your Feet is an outstanding book that will make a splash. It proposes an original defense of philosophical analysis and of its main tool, the method of cases. It is an impressive defense of armchair philosophy, as it is by and large currently practiced, and is also an important contribution to the cognitive science of concepts. Philosophers as well as psychologists will benefit tremendously from reading this book.
-- Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh

This book is beautifully written, powerfully argued, and deeply informed on the psychology. Strevens’s combination of respect for science and for ‘armchair’ philosophy results in a framework for understanding philosophy as a seamless and essential part of the human quest for knowledge.
-- Michael Bishop, Florida State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Philosophical Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Classical and Modern Conceptual Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Other Forms of Conceptual Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. The Psychology of Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. Natural Kind Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6. Conceptual Inductivism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. Inductivism versus Conceptual Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
8. Inductive Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9. Reference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
10. The Travails of Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
11. Against Essential Natures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
12. Substance: Basic Natural Kinds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
13. Substance: Philosophical Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
14. Learning without the Senses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
15. The Life and Death of Secondary Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages
- Main content: 330

eBook

Published: January 7, 2019
ISBN: 9780674986473