This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done.

Table of Contents

Part I Background

1. What is Philosophical Methodology?

Part II Traditions and Approaches

2. The Methodology of the History of Philosophy

3. Methodology in Nineteenth-. and Early Twentieth-.Century Analytic Philosophy

4. Nineteenth-.Century and Early Twentieth-.Century Post-.Kantian Philosophy

5. Logical Empiricism

6. Ordinary Language Philosophy

7. Wittgenstein's Global Deflationism

8. Philosophical Naturalism

9. Method in Analytic Metaphysics

10. Phenomenology

11. The Pragmatic Method

Part Ill Topics

12. Reflective Equilibrium

13. Analytic- .Synthetic and A Priori- .A Posteriori

14. Philosophical and Conceptual Analysis

15. Modeling

16. Intuitions

17. Philosophical Progress

18. Conceivability and Possibility

19. Philosophical Heuristics and Philosophical Methodology

20. Disagreement in Philosophy: Its Epistemic Significance

21. Faith and Reason

22. Experimental Philosophy

23. Transcendental Arguments

Part IV Philosophy and its Neighbours

25. Linguistic and Philosophical Methodology

26. History of Ideas: A Defense

27. The Methodology of Political Theory

28. Philosophy and Psychology

29. Neuroscience

30. Logic and Philosophical Methodology

31. Philosophy of Mathematics: Issues and Methods

32. Methods in the Philosophy of Literature and Film

33. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

34. The Methodology of Legal Philosophy

35. Feminism

36. Critical Philosophy of Race

About the Authors

Herman Wright Cappelen is a Norwegian philosopher. He is currently the Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong.

Tamar Szabó Gendler is an American philosopher and academic. She is a professor of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science at Yale University, where she also served as inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2014 to 2024. 

John Patrick Hawthorne FBA is an English philosopher, currently serving as Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is recognized as a leading contemporary contributor to metaphysics and epistemology.