Thinking Off Your Feet : : How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy / / Michael Strevens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Strevens, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; 1. Philosophical Knowledge --; 2. Classical and Modern Conceptual Analysis --; 3. Other Forms of Conceptual Analysis --; 4. The Psychology of Philosophy --; 5. Natural Kind Concepts --; 6. Conceptual Inductivism --; 7. Inductivism versus Conceptual Analysis --; 8. Inductive Analysis --; 9. Reference --; 10. The Travails of Analysis --; 11. Against Essential Natures --; 12. Substance: Basic Natural Kinds --; 13. Substance: Philosophical Categories --; 14. Learning without the Senses --; 15. The Life and Death of Secondary Categories --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674986473; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674986473
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Strevens.

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.