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38On Collingwood's Rehabilitation of the Ontological ArgumentIdealistic Studies 30 (3): 173-188. 2000.The paper is divided in two parts. In the first I consider the nature of Ryle's attack on Collingwood's appropriation of the ontological argument and Collingwood's defence in the unpublished correspondence. In the second, I go beyond the confines of the Ryle-Collingwood exchange in the mid 'thirties to say something much more general about the nature of Collingwood's metaphysics as well as to advance an explanation of the compatibility of Collingwood's combined defence of descriptive metaphysics…Read more
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38Collingwood on philosophical knowledge and the enduring nature of philosophical problemsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1). 2004.No abstract
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37Between ontological hubris and epistemic humility: Collingwood, Kant and the role of transcendental argumentsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (2): 336-357. 2019.This paper explores and defends a form of transcendental argument that is neither bold in its attempt to answer the sceptic, as ambitious transcendental strategies, nor epistemically humble, as modest transcendental strategies. While ambitious transcendental strategies seek to meet the sceptical challenge, and modest transcendental strategies accept the validity of the challenge but retreat to a position of epistemic humility, this form of transcendental argument denies the assumption that under…Read more
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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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27Le fossé dans l’explication n’est pas épistémologique mais sémantiquePhilosophiques 36 (1): 183-192. 2009.This paper explores an alternative to the metaphysical challenge to physicalism posed by Jackson and Kripke and to the epistemological one exemplified by the positions of Nagel, Levine and Mcginn. On this alternative the mind-body gap is neither ontological nor epistemological, but semantic. I claim that it is because the gap is semantic that the mind body-problem is a quintessentially philosophical problem that is not likely to wither away as our natural scientific knowledge advances
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26Davidson and the Autonomy of the Human SciencesIn Dialogues with Davidson: New Perspectives on his Philosophy, Mit Press. pp. 283-296. 2011.This chapter explores the kind of nonreductivism defended by Davidson and compares it with that which predominated in mid-century. Davidson’s argument for the autonomy of the human sciences is contrasted with the one developed by R. G. Collingwood as presented through the interpretative efforts of W. H. Dray. It is argued here that Davidson’s arguments against the anticausalist consensus that dominated the first half of the twentieth century were not conclusive and that the success of causalism …Read more
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25Collingwood, Scientism and HistoricismJournal of the Philosophy of History 11 (3): 275-288. 2017.
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17Beauties of Nature and Beauties of Art: On Kant and Hegel's AestheticsHegel Bulletin 17 (1): 70-86. 1996.
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15An Essay on Philosophical Method (edited book)OUP. 1933.This new edition of Collingwood's An Essay on Philosophical Method contains several previously unpublished papers including Collingwood's correspondence with Gilbert Ryle
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13Why Epistemic Pluralism Does not Entail Relativism: Collingwood’s Hinge EpistemologyIn Karim Dharamsi, Giuseppina D'Oro & Stephen Leach (eds.), Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology, Springer Verlag. pp. 151-175. 2018.D’Oro asks whether Collingwood’s metaphysics of absolute presuppositions leads to the belief-system relativism that is the target of Boghossian’s sustained criticism in his Fear of Knowledge. She argues that Collingwood’s metaphysics of absolute presuppositions aims to defend a form of epistemic pluralism which is not reducible to the kind of epistemic relativism Boghossian critiques. The decoupling of epistemic pluralism from epistemic relativism rests on a reading of absolute presuppositions a…Read more
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13Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What is the relation between philosophy and science and between philosophy and history? For much of the twentieth century, philosophers philosophized with little self-awareness; Collingwood was exceptional in the attention he paid to th…Read more
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12Introduction: The Armchair and the PickaxeIn Karim Dharamsi, Giuseppina D'Oro & Stephen Leach (eds.), Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-14. 2018.Is philosophy continuous with science or does it have a distinctive domain of inquiry that differs from that of the special sciences? Collingwood claimed that philosophy has a distinctive subject matter and a distinctive method. Its distinctive subject matter is what he called the “absolute presuppositions” that govern the special sciences and its method consists in making these presuppositions explicit by showing that they are entailed by the questions asked in the special sciences. In this cha…Read more
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11Daniel Berthold-Bond, Hegel's Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989, pp xi + 233, Pb $19.95 (review)Hegel Bulletin 15 (2): 49-52. 1994.
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8British IdealismIn John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth‐Century Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.This chapter identifies some themes in British idealism, especially those which resonate in contemporary debates, through an examination of T.H. Green, F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart. It focuses primarily on metaphysics and epistemology, supplemented by discussion of the ethics of Green and Bradley. In characterizing British idealism in more detail, it is important to start with T.H. Green, whose importance lay both in his philosophical thought, and also in his active engagement with Oxford l…Read more
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7Historiographic UnderstandingIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Argument for Methodological Unity The Argument against Methodological Unity Understanding Others The Ontological Turn and the New Causalist Consensus References.
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6An Essay on Philosophical Method (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2005.James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro present a new edition of R. G. Collingwood's classic work of 1933, supplementing the original text with important related writings from Collingwood's manuscripts which appear here for the first time. The editors also contribute a substantial new introduction. The volume will be welcomed by all historians of twentieth-century philosophy.
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1From Anticausalism to Causalism and BackIn Giuseppina D'Oro & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Non-causalism in the Philosophy of Action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 7-48. 2013.
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History and Idealism: Collingwood and OakeshottIn Malpass Jeff & Malpas Jeff (eds.), The Routledge Companion to hermenutics, Routledge. pp. 191-204. 2015.
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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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