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A Course in Metaphilosophy for Undergraduates [PDF]
, 2017 This paper describes an undergraduate course in metaphilosophy for philosophy majors and argues that there are four potential benefits to students; namely that doing metaphilosophy (1) allows students to draw their own conclusions about what philosophy ...
Smith, Renée
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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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Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, 2022 The main purpose of the paper is to characterize the metaphilosophical paradigm of today’s philosophy. The author argues that contemporary philosophical thought is thoroughly – and in a complex sense – metaphilosophical in nature.
Cyprian Gawlik
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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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Conceptual Engineering or Revisionary Conceptual Analysis? The Case of Russell's Metaphilosophy Based on Principia Mathematica's Logic [PDF]
, 2021 Conceptual engineers have made hay over the differences of their metaphilosophy from those of conceptual analysts. In this article, I argue that the differences are not as great as conceptual engineers have, perhaps rhetorically, made them seem. That is,
Elkind, Landon
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The Strange Case of Dr. Magelssen and Mr. Hofmann
Norsk Filosofisk TidsskriftI argued, in the article “Is prostitution harmful?”, that if one holds that casual sex is not per se harmful, one should hold that neither is prostitution.
Ole Martin Moen
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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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Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1038-1053, September 2025.Abstract The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains.
Cameron C. Yetman
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The Disputes About Metaphilosophy [PDF]
, 2014 Автор поднимает главный для философии Нового времени и современной философии вопрос: вопрос метафилософии. Философия стала сама для себя проблемой. Эта проблематичность касается также метафилософии.
Zięba, Włodzimierz
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