How to vindicate the armchair

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Abstract

Strevens’s Thinking Off Your Feet promises to vindicate philosophical analysis. My comments take a narrow, critical focus. I argue that Strevens doesn’t deliver on this promise. Given my understanding of (i) what is required from a vindication of philosophical analysis and (ii) Strevens’s grounds for ‘optimism’ about philosophical analysis, Strevens hasn’t done enough to vindicate philosophical analysis. Indeed, Strevens’s supposed grounds for optimism about armchair philosophy in fact provide motivation for philosophical analysis to give up some ground to experimental philosophy. Although my comments are critical, my overall view of the book is not. Strevens does important and interesting work presenting and analysing various models of how armchair philosophy might work and what it might achieve. The book deserves a central place in future discussions about these issues.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAnalysis
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Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2022

Keywords

  • Intuitions
  • Strevens
  • Philosophy
  • Metaphilosophy
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Philosophical methods
  • Philosophical methodology

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