A Concept of Progress as is Embedded in the Logic of Questions in Philosophical Practice

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avshalom Madhala Adam
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Questions ◽  
Philosophical Practice

Will training and philosophical practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Michael Grosso
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Practice

Intuitions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Sources Of Error ◽  
Key Aspects

This article examines the philosophical methodology of intuitions beginning with an argument developed by Max Deutsch and Herman Cappelen over the descriptive adequacy of what Cappelen calls “methodological rationalism”, and their own preferred view, “intuition nihilism”. Based on inadequacies in both accounts, it offers a descriptive take on intuition-deploying philosophical practice today via what it calls “Protean Crypto-Rationalism”. It then describes the epistemic profile of the appeal to intuition, listing four key aspects of the basic shape of intuition-deploying philosophical practice: primacy of cases, flexibility of report format, freedom of stipulation, and interpretation-hungry. It also considers several sources of error for intuitions featured in at least the informal methodological lore of philosophy, namely: misconstruals, modal confusions, pragmatics/semantics confusion, and “tin ear”. Finally, it explores the problem of methodological ignorance and inferential demand, particularly the typical practices of philosophical inference that operate on the premises delivered by appeal to intuitions.

scholarly journals The Method of Socratic Proofs Meets Correspondence Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion ◽  
Yaroslav Petrukhin ◽  
Vasilyi Shangin
Keyword(s):  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Boolean Functions ◽  
Propositional Logic ◽  
Sequent Calculus ◽  
Sequent Calculi ◽  
Classical Propositional Logic ◽  
Logic Of Questions ◽  
Proof Systems

The goal of this paper is to propose correspondence analysis as a technique for generating the so-called erotetic (i.e. pertaining to the logic of questions) calculi which constitute the method of Socratic proofs by Andrzej Wiśniewski. As we explain in the paper, in order to successfully design an erotetic calculus one needs invertible sequent-calculus-style rules. For this reason, the proposed correspondence analysis resulting in invertible rules can constitute a new foundation for the method of Socratic proofs. Correspondence analysis is Kooi and Tamminga's technique for designing proof systems. In this paper it is used to consider sequent calculi with non-branching (the only exception being the rule of cut), invertible rules for the negation fragment of classical propositional logic and its extensions by binary Boolean functions.

scholarly journals Against a Sequestered Philosophy

Dialogue ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-464
Author(s):  
EYJA M. BRYNJARSDÓTTIR
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Intellectual Humility ◽  
Philosophical Thought

This paper argues that philosophical practice in the Western world, in particular analytic philosophy, suffers from problems that contribute to its lack of diversity in two senses: the exclusion of women and minorities, and a narrow choice of subjects and methods. This is not fruitful for philosophical exchange and the flourishing of philosophical thought. Three contributing factors are covered: a flawed execution when instilling intellectual humility; the gaslighting of women in philosophy; and an overemphasis on a narrow conception of intelligence. The conclusion calls for a more humane and socially aware practice of philosophy.

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