Overview
- Explores an under-served area: investigates Collingwood's main treatises in specific relation to the field of philosophical methodology
- Offers currency: shows the relationship between Collingwood and contemporary philosophical pragmatism, and so demonstrates his relevance today
- Crosses disciplinary boundaries: considers the areas Collingwood was interested in, including history, philosophy, politics, archaeology and logic
Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)
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This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What is the relation between philosophy and science and between philosophy and history?
For much of the twentieth century, philosophers philosophized with little self-awareness; Collingwood was exceptional in the attention he paid to the activity of philosophizing. This book will be of interest both to those who are interested in Collingwood’s philosophy and, more generally, to all who are interested in the question ‘what is philosophy?’
For much of the twentieth century, philosophers philosophized with little self-awareness; Collingwood was exceptional in the attention he paid to the activity of philosophizing. This book will be of interest both to those who are interested in Collingwood’s philosophy and, more generally, to all who are interested in the question ‘what is philosophy?’
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Many of the chapters are good (some of them very good), and the volume occupies an important historical place as the first collection on the metaphilosophy of this philosopher of the highest calibre. Accordingly, it would make a valuable addition to any university library as a resource for Collingwood scholars.” (James Camien McGuiggan, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 50 (5), October, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Karim Dharamsi is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of General Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He has published articles in the philosophy of history, on the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Frege, the philosophy of education and liberal education.
Giuseppina D'Oro is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University, UK. She is the author of Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (2002). She co-edited, with James Connelly, Collingwood's An Essay on Philosophical Method (2005), with Constantine Sandis, Reasons and Causes: the Causalism/Anti-Causalism Debate in the Philosophy of Action (2013) and with Søren Overgaard, The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (2017).
Stephen Leach is Honorary Senior Fellow at Keele University, UK. He is the author of The Foundations of History: Collingwood’s Analysis of Historical Explanation (2009) and with James Connelly and Peter Johnson, R.G. Collingwood: A Research Companion (2015). With James Tartaglia, he has edited Consciousness and the Great Philosophers (2017) and The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology
Editors: Karim Dharamsi, Giuseppina D'Oro, Stephen Leach
Series Title: Philosophers in Depth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02431-4Published: 29 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40504-5Published: 20 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02432-1Published: 17 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-552X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 270
Topics: Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of History