Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy

Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy / Michael Strevens.

Author/creator	Strevens, Michael author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice	©2019
Description	345 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Analysis (Philosophy) Empiricism. Induction (Logic)

Contents	Philosophical knowledge -- Classical and modern conceptual analysis -- Other forms of conceptual analysis -- The psychology of philosophy -- Natural kind concepts -- Conceptual inductivism -- Inductivism versus conceptual analysis -- Inductive analysis -- Reference -- The travails of analysis -- Against essential natures -- Substance : basic natural kinds -- Substance : philosophical categories -- Learning without the senses -- The life and death of secondary categories.
Abstract	In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy's methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2018014208
ISBN	9780674986527 hardcover
ISBN	0674986520 hardcover

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	B808.5 .S765 2019	✔ Available	Place Hold