The burden of proof upon metaphysical methods / Conny Rhode.
Rhode, Conny.
2023
B808.5 .R46 2023
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Title The burden of proof upon metaphysical methods / Conny Rhode.
Author Rhode, Conny.
ISBN 9783031277771 electronic book
3031277775 electronic book
3031277767
9783031277764
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27777-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-27777-1 doi
Call Number B808.5 .R46 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 146.4
Summary Who carries the burden of proof in analytic philosophical debates, and how can this burden be satisfied? As it turns out, the answer to this joint question yields a fundamental challenge to the very conduct of metaphysics in analytic philosophy. Empirical research presented in this book indicates that the vastly predominant goal pursued in analytic philosophical dialogues lies not in discovering truths or generating knowledge, but merely in prevailing over ones opponents. Given this goal, the book examines how most effectively to allocate and discharge the burden of proof. It focuses on premises that must prudently be avoided because a burden of proof on them could never be satisfied, and in particular discusses unsupportable bridge premises across inference barriers, like Humes barrier between is and ought, or the barrier between the content of our talk or thought, and the world beyond such content. Employing this content/world barrier for a critical assessment of mainstream analytic philosophical methods, this book argues that we must prudently avoid invoking intuitions or other content of thought or talk in support of claims about the world beyond content, that is, metaphysically significant claims. Yet as content-located evidence is practically indispensable to metaphysical debates throughout analytic philosophy, from ethics to the philosophy of mathematics, this book reaches the startling conclusion that all such metaphysical debates must, prudently, be terminated. Conny Rhodes research at the University of York focused on philosophical methodology and argumentation theory, beside forays into the philosophy of science, post-Kantian philosophy, and political and moral philosophy, often employing a feminist perspective. In light of the conclusion derived in this book, Rhode has left academic philosophy and now insists on appropriate evidence in accountancy instead.
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BURDEN OF PROOF UPON METAPHYSICAL METHODS.
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Intro
The Burden of Proof upon Metaphysical Methods
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
1: Dialogue and Persuasion
1.1 The Problem of Methodological Conservatism
1.2 Commitments in Attitude and Dialogue
1.3 An Analysis of Philosophical Dialogues
Types of Dialogue
Philosophers' Self-Conceptions
Methodology
Example Analysis: Willoughby (2012)
Results
Attitudinal Goals
1.4 Looking Ahead
References
2: The Burden of Proof
2.1 Egalitarianism versus Foundationalism
2.2 Allocating the Burden of Proof

2.3 The Prudence of Dialogical Egalitarianism in Philosophy
References
3: Evidence, Inference, and Empiricism
3.1 Meeting the Burden of Proof
3.2 Evidence
3.3 Implication Barriers
3.4 Addressing Counter-Examples
3.5 Quantitative and Qualitative Barriers
3.6 Empiricism
References
4: Philosophical Methods between Content and the World
4.1 Consequences of Dialogical Empiricism
4.2 The Content/World Separation
4.3 Hypotheses in Philosophy
Psycho-Linguistic and Non-Psycho-Linguistic Subject Matter
Concepts
Cognition
Necessary Truth

4.4 Evidence in Philosophy
Intuitions
Common Sense
Ordinary Language Usage
Theoretical Virtues
Method of Cases
Reflective Equilibrium
Conceptual Analysis and the Canberra Plan
Experimental Philosophy
4.5 Against the Content/World Separation
The Easy Approach
Content Externalism
Agential Realism
Calibration
Mentalism
References
5: Metaphysical Hypotheses
5.1 Substantive Consequences
5.2 Normativity
5.3 Necessity
5.4 Epistemology
5.5 Ontology
5.6 Quietism
References
6: Escaping Dialogical Empiricism

6.1 Looking Behind
6.2 A Way Around?
6.3 A Way Out?
References
Appendix A Reputational Journal Ranking
Appendix B Population Size
Appendix C Example Analyses
Appendix D Analysis Results
Index

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