<i>Must</i>Philosophers Disagree?

Schiller, F. C. S.; Mace, C. A.; Stocks, J. L.

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“…Although he thinks that these diagnoses get something right, none of them provides an adequate explanation of philosophical disagreement. For, he maintains, the source of philosophical diversity lies in the “structure of philosophical inquiry itself” (Rescher , 8) or “deep in the very nature of the subject” (Rescher , 13; see also Schiller, Mace, and Stocks , 118; Dilley , 8; Rescher , 219). If this is right, then we need not be dismayed or embarrassed about philosophers' endless and sometimes ugly conflicts, for this level of discord rightfully belongs to philosophy.…”

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“…But for the most part, it seems, philosophers have not allowed this disharmony to interfere with their ordinary philosophical practice . Whatever one's preferred response to philosophical diversity might be, Cohen is surely right that “no philosopher could ever deny it” (Cohen , 114; see also Schiller, Mace, and Stocks , 132–33; Jones , 24; Rescher , 14). That the history of Western philosophy has been, and will likely remain, a “history of disagreements, not agreements” (Mandt , 100; see also Morrow and Sula , 299) could only be denied by those willing to dismiss vast areas of the discipline as pseudo‐philosophy or non‐philosophy.…”

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Philosophical Diversity and Disagreement

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2012

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Widespread and lasting consensus has not been philosophy's fate. Indeed, one of philosophy's most striking features is its ability to accommodate “not only different answers to philosophical questions” but also “total disagreement on what questions are philosophical” (Rorty , 58). It is therefore hardly surprising that philosophers' responses to this metaphilosophical predicament have been similarly varied. This article considers two recent diagnoses of philosophical diversity: Kornblith and Rescher (respectively) claim that taking philosophical disagreement seriously does not lead to metaphilosophical scepticism. The article argues that their confidence is misplaced in so far as both wrongly assume that ordinary, first‐order philosophical practice and second‐order metaphilosophical reflection are separate enterprises.

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The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology

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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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