Tag: metaphilosophy
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Philosophy: More Empirical Than Ever
“In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%.”
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An AI Analyzes Philosophers’ Discussion of AI
Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot…
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Argument Isn’t Everything: On Creativity in Philosophy
“I don’t believe that arguing is usually the way we come up with good ideas. Argument might be an effective way of deciding which…
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A Manifesto for a Future Philosophy (guest post)
“This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many…
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A Taxonomy of “Philosophy Moves” (updated)
There is joy, and sometimes perverse satisfaction, in the work of philosophy—a rush that can be difficult to relate to those not already bitten…
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Is Epistemology Guilty of “Institutional Neglect of Science”?
Standard Analytic Epistemology (SAE) is the name Michael Bishop (Florida State) and J.D. Trout (Illinois Institute of Technology) give to “the dominant approach to…
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What Aren’t We Philosophizing About, But Should?
“The singular magic of philosophy lies in its pairing of imaginative liberty with analytic clarity, but the field has come to privilege the latter…
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Ethical Evidence, Ethical Experience, and Shamelessness (guest post)
“A kind of science-envy is often visible in much of what analytic philosophers have had to say about the question of evidence in ethics……
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Progress & New Ideas in Philosophy
“In what state do we find the research produced in academic analytic philosophy?… Things are better than they’ve been for eighty years or so.”
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Metaphilosophy Project Workshop Series
A project on metaphilosophy led by Boran Berčić (University of Rijeka) has won a sizable grant from the Croatian Science Foundation and is putting…
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Is There A Sound Philosophical Method? (guest post)
“Is there a sound method for constructing and assessing philosophical theories—one capable of generating theories, in diverse subfields, that deliver philosophy’s ultimate goal?”
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In Which Areas of Philosophy Should We Expect Faster Progress?
On what we can call the answers model of philosophy, the primary aim of philosophy is to learn philosophical truths, and a primary form of…
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Philosophy Is Not In Charge of Itself (and other points worth remembering when writing about the state of philosophy)
Are you thinking about writing about the state of philosophy today?
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Team Philosophy (guest post)
“There are clear advantages to team science… Would this model work for philosophy?”
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Philosophy as Sustaining Faith in our Cognitive Agency
“What are the practices that sustain our faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking?”
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Philosophy as Art
“I view the philosophical essay as an art form whose medium is ideas.”
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Does Studying Philosophy Develop Special Skills That Improve One’s Intuitions?
A new study suggests the answer to that question is “no.” Rather, according to the study’s authors, what explains why the intuitions about particular…
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What’s the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)?
I’m curious about what academic philosophers take to be the point of academic philosophy. Just a little question, that’s all.