Questions tagged [metaphilosophy]
Metaphilosophy is the philosophical study of philosophy itself — its goals, methods, scope, and relationship to other intellectual disciplines or human projects.
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What is the exact meaning of philosophy? [duplicate]
I encounter lot of cases where I myself, though a student of philosophy, have a problem because the term philosophy is used in an ambigous way.
Philosophy (from Ancient Greek philosophía lit. 'love ...
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What are the main arguments against the formalization of philosophy?
By formalization of philosophy I mean translating a philosophical system into a formal language, in such a way that the statements of the philosophical system correspond to statements of the formal ...
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What is the point of philosophy? [duplicate]
From what I understand, the point of philosophy is to seek the truth. But absolute truth can never be found. You could argue that the earth is flat, or the world is a simulation, and you will never be ...
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What do philosophers generally think about the possibility of a total foundation of philosophy?
I am referring to the attempt to find a base from which all of philosophy can be derived, in the same way that set theory serves as a foundation from which all of mathematics can be derived.
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Is there a philosophy "simplifier"?
Since philosophers love writing wordy, long-winded books and I love concise clear books, is there any app that I could paste a book worth of text into and translate it from philosophy into something ...
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Can philosophy be answered? [closed]
Philosophical activity seems highly subjective and open to debate, no matter what is put forth. Every philosopher seems to have a different set of questions and answers. Given the subjective and ...
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Philosophy of philosophy of philosophy...? [closed]
There is a distinction to be made between philosophy and the philosophy of philosophy (metaphilosophy) ,
is there also a distinction to be made between the philosophy of philosophy and
the philosophy ...
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Has metaphysics gone out of vogue?
Over the past century, metaphysics appears to have lost some clout within the mainstream philosophical zeitgeist. On a rather anecdotal level, it seems like the large metaphysical debates from ancient ...
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Why haven't philosophers declared the hard problem of consciousness unsolvable? [closed]
Why have philosophers of mind not already accepted mysterianism? The consensus is that the hard problem is fundamentally different from other historical inquiries about science or philosophy, in that ...
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Should theological questions be considered philosophical questions and dealt with by philosophers?
According to Jo Wehler: "I consider the three persons of the Christian trinity to be an example of three eternal persons with a single essence. In particular, the three always agree. ...
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Is it hard to define philosophy? [closed]
My question is simple: why can't we say that X is philosophy if and only if it belongs to:
Metaphysics (including Philosophy of Religion)
Logic
Axiology (including Ethics, Aesthetic, Political ...
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Question about instrumentation involved in philosophising [closed]
I am in search for truth, and mostly I study myself by myself. I haven't read any philosophy and am not familiar with any philosopher's work. Since I do all "philosophising" on my own, at ...
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Is conceptual analysis merely a descriptive project about how our community uses concepts?
In much of contemporary philosophy, conceptual analysis is presented as the task of uncovering the necessary and sufficient conditions for the correct application of a concept (e.g., “X is knowledge ...
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Can we imagine "nothing" or can we only conceive a representation of it?
I wanted to think of an absence of Time or Space, which in my understanding is "nothing". when I closed my eyes and thought of "nothing", I saw just darkness, not even a single &...
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What's the difference between natural philosophy and science?
That's what they called science before they called it science, but there seems to be a difference. I perceive a subtle holism in natural philosophy that I don't see in the cold equations.
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