Philosophy in Mediis Rebus |
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Authors: | Lynne Rudder Baker |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts,Amherst, MA 01003-9269, USA |
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Abstract: | Philosophy should begin in the middle of things. I distinguish two ways in which I think that philosophy should begin in the middle of things, and then I describe the two dominant approaches to analytic philosophy today: scientific pragmatism and conceptual analysis (or, more broadly, "a priorism"). After giving reasons for dissatisfaction with both of these dominant approaches, I set out my own view – Practical Realism – and argue for the merits of its methodological and metaphysical components. |
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Keywords: | philosophical method relativism scientific pragmatism conceptual analysis a priorism phenomenalism practical realism |
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