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I explore the similarities between what is considered to be philosophizing or the doing of philosophy. I illustrate how in fact these so-called philosophical methods, techniques and tools are in fact resembling the features of the stages of theorizing. I use Habermas as an example to show that all academic investigation employs and goes through some or most of these stages, often the theorist or writer is unaware of the fact and thinks that he is describing his own ideas, model, system.
These words are about philosophy, the doing of philosophy and what philosophers do and what they think they do, so it is in fact meta-philosophical descriptions. They are intended as general statements about these things, generalizations, hypotheses, a model and pointers to a possible framework for a theory about what the doing of philosophy is like, what the process/es of philosophizing are like and what the processes of theorizing are like. The philosophical ‘methods’ that are referred to and described are in fact resembling different aspects and features, and different stages of the process of theorizing, for example identifying and describing the data that are collected as subject-matter to be investigated, deconstructed, analysed, dealt with phenomenologically, logically or by means of the tools of critical theory, the creation of problem statements involving this data, issues or problems,, the development and weighing of alternative conjectures concerning these things, the use of disciplined imagination, the selection, interpretation and retention of such conjectures, guiding ideas and concepts, meaning construction by means of variations of different sets of concepts, invention of concepts, use of simulations or imaginary experiments, imaginative representations eg by using metaphors in accordance with the eight optimality principles, applying selection criteria relevant to the particular stage of philosophizing, and other uses of thought trials, etc.
Philosophizing is part of the Process/es of Theorizing An illustration (by means of a number of articles, books, opinions, statements, hypotheses, theories, arguments, reasoning and comments) of doing philosophy or philosophizing and its methods, as aspects of the contexts, stages, steps and features of the process/es of theorizing. A number of implicit assumptions and tacit pre-suppositions of this socio-cultural practice and discourse, for example as they resemble that of everyday and religious perception (MNC, “maturationally natural” perception, cognition, and action), are identified and revealed.
Much extended to included details of courses, subject-matter, methods taught in Analytic Philosophy, theorizing and Continental philosophy , for example vast appendix on 'the movement of non-philosophy' work. Much extended by details of undergraduate courses in philosophy (epistemology, arguments, metaphysics, and other aspects of 'Analytic' Philosophy , or as taught in the UK and US), as well as aspects theory-construction (the 3 approaches in the sciences) Meta-philosophical study of philosophy as it resembles the processes of theorizing. Surveying Analytical and Continental Philosophy as described by different authors to identify their subject-matter (that could be included and excluded in this discipline or shared with other disciplines as in cognitive sciences and X-Phi) and methods. AP concentrates on certain stages of theorizing (conceptual analysis, exploration and speculation about them), CP concentrates on 'the human condition', social, political and cultural fields, but lacks the clarity, meticulous details and systematic work of AP. These are some of the implicit assumptions (ideologies) underlying and determining contemporary philosophical practice and institutions.
This is a short piece on the idea of Philosophical Sociology that I wrote for the blog of Sociological Review
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The writing of this thesis was a process that I could not explore with the positivistic detachment of the classical sociologist” 1 1 From S3 in our corpus. Although we list the writers and titles of our corpus at the end of this paper, in the text we discuss the theses by discipline (H for Histor...2006 •
Meta-philosophical study of philosophy as it resembles the processes of theorizing. Surveying Analytical and Continental Philosophy as described by different authors to identify their subject-matter (that could be included and excluded in this discipline or shared with other disciplines as in cognitive sciences and X-Phi) and methods. AP concentrates on certain stages of theorizing (conceptual analysis, exploration and speculation about them), CP concentrates on 'the human condition', social, political and cultural fields, but lacks the clarity, meticulous details and systematic work of AP. These are some of the implicit assumptions (ideologies) underlying and determining contemporary philosophical practice and institutions.
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