Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits: Anti-Theory in Ethics and Philosophy of Science

Author:   Uri D. Leibowitz ,  Klodian Coko ,  Isaac Nevo
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Pages:   209
Publication Date:   13 February 2025
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Author:   Uri D. Leibowitz ,  Klodian Coko ,  Isaac Nevo
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
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9783031824975


ISBN 10:   3031824970
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   13 February 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Moral Philosophy is not What it Used to Be: Reflections on Three Decades of Anti-Theory.- Chapter 3. Feyerabend’s Asymmetry Argument for Epistemological Anarchism.- Chapter 4. The Scientific Method and The Moral Method.- Chapter 5. Against Theory and Method in Ethics and Philosophy of Science.- Chapter 6. Ethical Description as a Form of Anti Theory.- Chapter 7. Overcoming Metaethics: Interpretation, Objectivity, and Realism.- Chapter 8. What is it Like to See an Animal? Self-Examination and the Moral Relevance of Ordinary Descriptions of Animals.- Chapter 9. Anti-Theory in Philosophy: A Case for Pragmatism.- Chapter 10. The Dangers of ‘Best Practices’: Against Supposedly Revolutionary Theories of Evidence in Medicine.

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Uri D. Leibowitz is a senior lecturer at the Philosophy Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His main areas of interest are at the intersection of ethics/meta-ethics and the philosophy of science. Uri’s published work includes scholarly essays on various topics including explanation in ethics and in science, Aristotle’s ethics, moral particularism, Descartes’ Cogito, The Euthyphro problem, as well as an edited volume (with Neil Sinclair) titled ‘Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics’ (OUP, 2016).   Klodian Coko is a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on the historical emergence and development of scientific methods and experimental practices. His published work includes articles on the methodological strategies of consilience, robustness, and multiple determination, as well as articles on the early twentieth century atomism debates.   Isaac Nevo is a retired Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His main areas of interest are the history of analytic philosophy, American pragmatism, applied ethics (particularly, the ethics of scientific research and academic conduct). His published work includes a book on the History of analytic Philosophy (The Dulling of the Razor’s Edge: Analytic Philosophy and Its Development (Resling, 2009; In Hebrew), edited volumes and scholarly articles.

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