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32The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.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 …Read more
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De la distinction entre action et événementRecherches Sur la Philosophie Et le Langage 30 169-186. 2014.
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76Collingwood and Ryle on the concept of mindPhilosophical Explorations 6 (1). 2003.This paper argues that Collingwood's philosophy of mind offers an interesting and compelling account of the nature of the mind and of the irreducibility of the mental, an account whose viability and relevance to contemporary debates ought to be given serious consideration. I suggest that the reason why Collingwood's contribution to the philosophy of mind has been neglected is due to the fact that his philosophy of mind is widely, even if mistakenly, regarded as the target of Ryle's attacks on th…Read more
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51Unlikely Bedfellows? Collingwood, Carnap and the Internal/External DistinctionBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (4): 802-817. 2015.Idealism is often associated with the kind of metaphysical system building which was successfully disposed of by logical positivism. As Hume's fork was intended to deliver a serious blow to Leibnizian metaphysics so logical positivism invoked the verificationist principle against the reawakening of metaphysics, in the tradition of German and British idealism. In the light of this one might reasonably wonder what Carnap's pragmatism could possibly have in common with Collingwood's idealism. After…Read more
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126Reasons and Causes: The Philosophical Battle and The Meta-philosophical WarAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (2). 2012.?Are the reasons for acting also the causes of action?? When this question was asked in the early 1960s it received by and large a negative reply: ?No, reasons are not causes?. Yet, when the same question ?Are the reasons for acting the causes of action?? is posed some twenty years later, the predominant answer is ?Yes, reasons are causes?. How could one and the same question receive such diverging answers in the space of only a couple of decades? This paper argues that the shift from an anti-ca…Read more
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78Collingwood, psychologism and internalismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 12 (2). 2004.The paper defends Collingwood's account of rational explanation against two objections. The first is that he psychologizes the concept of practical reason. The second is that he fails to distinguish mere rationalizations from rationalizations that have causal power. I argue that Collingwood endorses a form of nonpsychologizing internalism which rests on the view that the appropriate explanans for actions are neither empirical facts (as externalists claim), nor psychological facts (as some intern…Read more
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298Two dogmas of contemporary philosophy of actionJournal of the Philosophy of History 1 (1): 10-24. 2007.Davidson's seminal essay "Actions, Reasons and Causes" brought about a paradigm shift in the theory of action. Before Davidson the consensus was that the fundamental task of a theory of action was to elucidate the concept of action and event explanation. The debate concerning the nature of action explanation thus took place primarily in the philosophy of history and social science and was focussed on purely methodological issues. After Davidson it has been assumed that the fundamental challenge …Read more
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60Collingwood and the Metaphysics of ExperienceRoutledge. 2002.Giuseppina D'Oro explores Collingwood's work in epistemology and metaphysics, uncovering his importance beyond his better known work in philosophy of history and aesthetics. This major contribution to our understanding of one of the most important figures in history of philosophy will be essential reading for scholars of Collingwood and all students of metaphysics and the history of philosophy.
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43Understanding Others: Cultural Anthropology with Collingwood and QuineJournal of the Philosophy of History 7 (3): 326-345. 2013.
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