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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Comparative Philosophy Without Method” by Prof. Steven Burik, Singapore Management University, Singapore
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Comparative Philosophy Without Method” by Prof. Steven Burik, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/7mnk1eav Abstract I argue that comparative philosophy cannot have one method or even one methodology. I take my cue from two ideas. The first is tied to the famous story of G. E. Moore pointing to the wall of books behind him and saying philosophy was “what these are about.” Moore referred to an entire history of thinking with its own categories, demands, and interests, but more importantly to the impossibility to narrow down philosophy to a particular method or to one way of doing philosophy. My second cue has to do with the definitions of philosophical ‘method’ and ‘methodology.’ Using the different definitions of ‘method’ and ‘methodology’, I claim firstly that comparative philosophy cannot by its […]
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FAH/DPHIL: UM DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE – “Investigating a Philosophical Method” by Prof. Claudine Verheggen, York University, Canada
FAH/DPHIL: UM DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE – “Investigating a Philosophical Method” by Prof. Claudine Verheggen, York University, Canada
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/7mnk1eav Abstract Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical method of #2 is that of trying to make sense of a philosophical idea by trying to “make the idea real”, that is, to “describe or imagine a situation to which the philosophical idea in question truly applies” (Stroud 1983). I argue, with Barry Stroud, that the method of #2 can be used to rule out reductionist accounts of meaning, but, against Stroud, that it can also be used to rule out the possibility of both private and solitary languages. Moreover, constructive claims about meaning can be generated when the method is applied to the idea of a shared or social language. Bio Professor Claudine Verheggen has research and teaching interests […]