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To mark the 50th anniversary of Donald Davidson's 'Actions, reasons
and causes', eight philosophers with distinctive and contrasting
views revisit and update the reasons/causes debate.Their essays are
preceded by a historical introduction which traces current debates
to their roots in the philosophy of history and social science,
linking the rise of causalism to a metaphysical backlash against
the linguistic turn. Both historically grounded and topical, this
volume will be of great interest to both students and scholars in
the philosophy of action and related areas of study.
R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century. Although the importance of his work is indisputable, this is the first book to consider how and why it actually matters. Giussepina D'oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but instead, observes the whole world of thought. Why Collingwood Matters revives Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis and shows how it informs his understanding of the mind, what it means to act, and what it means to understand the past historically. It also argues for the relevance of his metaphilosophical approach to the challenge posed by the Anthropocene and the global environmental crisis. Both an elucidation of Collingwood's thought and a lively exploration of it's contemporary relevance, Why Collingwood Matters provides a much-needed examination of a 20th-century polymath.
This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What is the relation between philosophy and science and between philosophy and history? For much of the twentieth century, philosophers philosophized with little self-awareness; Collingwood was exceptional in the attention he paid to the activity of philosophizing. This book will be of interest both to those who are interested in Collingwood's philosophy and, more generally, to all who are interested in the question 'what is philosophy?'
The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology offers clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The chapters in this volume approach the question of how to do philosophy from a wide range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, deconstruction, experimental philosophy, hermeneutics, Kantianism, methodological naturalism, phenomenology, and pragmatism. They explore general conceptions of philosophy, centred on the question of what the point of philosophising might be; the method of conceptual analysis and its recent naturalistic critics and competitors; perspectives from continental philosophy; and also a variety of methodological views that belong neither to the mainstream of analytic philosophy, nor to continental philosophy as commonly conceived. Together they will enable readers to grasp an unusually wide range of approaches to methodological debates in philosophy.
James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro present a revised edition of R. G. Collingwood's classic work of 1933, supplementing the original text with important related writings from Collingwood's manuscripts which appear here for the first time. The editors also contribute a substantial new introduction, and the volume will be welcomed by all historians of twentieth-century philosophy.
An Essay on Philosophical Method contains the most sustained
discussion in the twentieth century of the subject matter and
method of philosophy and an unparalleled explanation of why
philosophy has a distinctive domain of enquiry that differs from
that of the sciences of nature. This new edition of the Essay
focuses on Collingwood's contribution to metaphilosophy and locates
his argument for the autonomy of philosophy against the twentieth
century trend to naturalize its subject matter. Collingwood argues
that the distinctions which philosophers make, for example, between
the concepts of duty and utility in moral philosophy, or between
the concepts of mind and body in the philosophy of mind, are not
empirical taxonomies that cut nature at the joints but semantic
distinctions to which there may correspond no empirical classes.
This identification of philosophical distinctions with semantic
distinctions provides the basis for an argument against the
naturalization of the subject matter of philosophy for it entails
that not all concepts are empirical concepts and not all
classifications are empirical classifications. Collingwood's
explanation of why philosophy has a distinctive subject matter thus
constitutes a clear challenge to the project of radical empiricism.
The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology offers clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The chapters in this volume approach the question of how to do philosophy from a wide range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, deconstruction, experimental philosophy, hermeneutics, Kantianism, methodological naturalism, phenomenology, and pragmatism. They explore general conceptions of philosophy, centred on the question of what the point of philosophising might be; the method of conceptual analysis and its recent naturalistic critics and competitors; perspectives from continental philosophy; and also a variety of methodological views that belong neither to the mainstream of analytic philosophy, nor to continental philosophy as commonly conceived. Together they will enable readers to grasp an unusually wide range of approaches to methodological debates in philosophy.
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