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Philosophical methodology : from data to theory /

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Main Authors: Bengson, John (Author), Cuneo, Terence (Author), Shafer-Landau, Russ (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Methodology.
Methods
Méthodologie.
methodology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY: From Data to Theory
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Introduction
  • 1: The Nature of Inquiry
  • 1. The Structure of Inquiry
  • 2. The Goals of Inquiry
  • 3. Theoretical Understanding
  • 2: Philosophical Data
  • 1. Four Features of Data
  • 2. The Theory-Ladennessof Data
  • 3. Three Theories of Data
  • 3.1 The sociological theory
  • 3.2 The metaphysical theory
  • 3.3 The psycho-linguistictheory
  • 3: The Epistemic Theory of Data
  • 1. The Epistemic Theory
  • 2. The Process of Data Collection
  • 3. Data Imposters, Data Disablers
  • 4: The Question of Method
  • 1. Two Data about Method
  • 2. A Third Datum
  • 2.1 Methodological trends in recent philosophy
  • 2.2 The rudiments of a sound method
  • 3. Extant Methods
  • 4. Room for Improvement
  • 4.1 Handling the three data about method
  • 4.2 Delivering inquiry's ultimate proper goal
  • 4.3 Remedies?
  • 5: The Tri-LevelMethod
  • 1. Level One: Handling the Data
  • 1.1 The Accommodation Criterion
  • 1.2 The Explanation Criterion
  • 1.3 On the relation between the first two criteria
  • 2. Level Two: Grounding the Theory
  • 2.1 The Substantiation Criterion
  • 2.2 The Integration Criterion
  • 2.3 On the relation between the first two levels
  • 3. Level Three: Highlighting the Virtues
  • 4. A Brief Illustration
  • 5. Answering the Question of Method
  • 6: Philosophical Progress
  • 1. The How-Toand Evaluative Questions
  • 1.1 Answering the how-toquestion
  • 1.2 Answering the evaluative question
  • 2. The Existential and Comparative Questions
  • 2.1 Fundamental vs. foremost questions
  • 2.2 Shared frameworks
  • 2.3 Forms of noetic progress
  • 2.4 Illustrating noetic progress
  • 2.5 The role of the Tri-LevelMethod