Daly C. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods

Houndsmills, Basingstroke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 698 p. — (Palgrave Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-1-137-34454-0.This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.
Fully cognizant of the exciting variety within current analytic philosophy, this Handbook surveys many of the key topics in the field including: progress in philosophy, the reasons for intractable philosophical disagreement, the nature of philosophical explanation, the nature and role of intuitions, the role of thought experiments, the relationship of philosophy to science, and the place of reflective equilibrium in metaethics.Introduction and historical overview / Chris Daly
A priori analysis and the methodological a posteriori / David Braddon-Mitchell
The failure of analysis and the nature of concepts / Michael Huemer
Singular ontology: how to / Alexis Burgess
Paradigms and philosophical progress / M. B. Willard
Disagreement in philosophy / Jason Decker
Agnosticism about ontology / Chris Daly and David Liggins
Modality, metaphysics, and method / Boris Kment
Explanation and explication / Paul Audi
Empirically grounded philosophical theorizing / Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski
Et tu, brute? / Sam Baron
Properties are potatoes?: An essay on ontological parsimony / Nikk Effingham
Advice for Eleatics / Sam Cowling
Pragmatism without idealism / Robert Kraut and Kevin Scharp
Intuitions, conceptual engineering, and conceptual fixed points / Matti Eklund
Thought experiments and experimental philosophy / Joachim Horvath
Rationalizing self-interpretation / Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter
Reclaiming the armchair / Janet Levin
Placement, grounding, and mental content / Kelly Trogdon
Theory dualism and the metalogic of mind-body problems / T. Parent
Knowing how and "knowing how" / Yuri Cath
Philosophy of science and the curse of the case study / Adrian Currie
Three degrees of naturalism in the philosophy of science / Paul Dicken
Against pluralism in metaethics / Jens Johansson and Jonas Olson
Directly plausible principles / Howard Nye
Moral inquiry and mob psychology / James Lenman
The methodological irrelevance of reflective equilibrium / Tristram McPherson