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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 3-22, January 2026.
Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
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Mathemtics and Metaphilosophy [PDF]

, 2022
This book discusses the problem of mathematical knowledge, and its broader philosophical ramifications. It argues that the challenge to explain the (defeasible) justification of our mathematical beliefs (‘the justificatory challenge’), arises insofar as ...
Clarke-Doane, Justin
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Paradigms of metaphilosophy – history and the present

, 2022
Metaphilosophy as a research discipline is concerned with the overall metatheoretical reflection of philosophy on its own subject matter, assumptions, methodology, and goals guiding this form of human intellectual activity.
Wawrzynowicz, Andrzej
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Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy: Johnstone's Metaphilosophical Informal Logic

Informal Logic, 2001
This is a critical examination of Johnstone's thesis that all valid philosophical arguments are ad hominem. I clarify his notions of valid, philosophical, and ad hominem. I illustrate the thesis with his refutation ofthe claim that only ordinary language
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
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The Puzzle of Philosophical Testimony and the Place of Understanding in Philosophy

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 47-54, January 2026.
Abstract This paper addresses the question of how to account for the distinctive way in which, as a matter of fact, we react to philosophical disagreement and, more generally, to philosophical testimony. The paper explains how exactly the idea that understanding occupies a central place in philosophy can account for this.
Benoit Gaultier
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Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 6, Page 1100-1132, November 2025.
This article aims to enrich critical sociolegal scholarship and methodological approaches within the field of capability theory by introducing ‘recognising capabilities analysis’. The recognising capabilities analysis embeds Nancy Fraser's theory of recognition (particularly her concept of parity of participation), into the capability paradigm.
Alex Louise Pearl
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Feminist Metaphilosophy: An Introduction

, 2021
This introduction aims to problematize the relationship between metaphilosophy and what we call the ‘feminist philosophical project’. We define ‘feminist metaphilosophy’ as an internally differentiated project of critique and revolution of philosophy ...
Giovanna Miolli, Valentina Bortolami
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Nietzsche Was No Perspectivist

Philosophies
There is a widespread agreement that Nietzsche has developed a kind of position or doctrine called ‘perspectivism’. Scholars go on and develop metaphysical, semantic, epistemic, and psychobiological interpretations of the supposed Nietzschean ...
Michael Lewin
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Kant als metaphilosophischer Skeptizist?

Кантовский сборник, 2023
Throughout history, both philosophers and non-philosophers have doubted that philosophical positions qua philosophical positions are justified and that philosophy is a rational enterprise.
Daniel Minkin
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The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 438-458, October 2025.
Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
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