University of Tasmania, Australia

Description

This project looks at analytic philosophy as an epistemic institution, and considers challenges to its methods from the sciences (such as the experimental philosophy critique) and from European philosophy. Of particular interest is what one might call local coherence-building methods in analytic philosophy (appeals to reflective equilibrium, inference to the best explanation and judgment based on appeal to theoretical virtues), the implications they have for the study of normative systems (particularly moral theory and epistemology), and the way they might or might not fit within a naturalising approach to philosophy.

Recent Work Includes

Chase, J and Reynolds, J (2011) Analytic Versus Continental Acumen

Contacts

• James Chase
• Graham Wood