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.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction and Historical Overview - Chris Daly
• Part I Philosophical Inquiry: Problems and Prospects
• 1 A Priori Analysis and the Methodological A Posteriori - David Braddon-Mitchell
• 2 The Failure of Analysis and the Nature of Concepts - Michael Huemer
• 3 Singular Ontology: How To - Alexis Burgess
• 4 Paradigms and Philosophical Progress - M. B. Willard
• 5 Disagreement in Philosophy - Jason Decker
• 6 Agnosticism about Ontology - Chris Daly and David Liggins
• Part II Philosophical Explanation and Methodology in Metaphysics
• 7 Modality, Metaphysics, and Method - Boris Kment
• 8 Explanation and Explication - Paul Audi
• 9 Empirically Grounded Philosophical Theorizing - Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski
• 10 Et Tu, Brute? - Sam Baron
• 11 Properties Are Potatoes? An Essay on Ontological Parsimony - Nikk Effingham
• 12 Advice for Eleatics - Sam Cowling
• 13 Pragmatism without Idealism - Robert Kraut and Kevin Scharp
• Part III Intuition, Psychology, and Experimental Philosophy
• 14 Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Fixed Points - Matti Eklund
• 15 Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy - Joachim Horvath
• 16 Rationalizing Self-Interpretation - Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter
• 17 Reclaiming the Armchair - Janet Levin
• Part IV Method, Mind, and Epistemology
• 18 Placement, Grounding, and Mental Content - Kelly Trogdon
• 19 Theory Dualism and the Metalogic of Mind–Body Problems - T. Parent
• 20 Knowing How and ‘Knowing How’ - Yuri Cath
• 21 Philosophy of Science and the Curse of the Case Study - Adrian Currie
• 22 Three Degrees of Naturalism in the Philosophy of Science - Paul Dicken
• Part V Metaethics and Normativity
• 23 Against Pluralism in Metaethics - Jens Johansson and Jonas Olson
• 24 Directly Plausible Principles - Howard Nye
• 25 Moral Inquiry and Mob Psychology - James Lenman
• 26 The Methodological Irrelevance of Reflective Equilibrium - Tristram McPherson