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John Bengson, Terence Cuneo and Russ Shafer-Landau, Philosophical Methodology: From Data to Theory, Oxford University Press, 2022, 208pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192862464.
Reviewed by Daniel Stoljar, Australian National University
While John Bengson, Terence Cuneo and Russ Shafer-Landau (hereafter BCS) don’t put it this way, the basic idea of their new book Philosophical Methodology is, as I read it, to develop a version of what Timothy Williamson (2021) has called ‘anti-exceptionalism’ about philosophy.
A useful way to formulate anti-exceptionalism is in terms of the notion of an epistemologically standard discipline. A discipline (understood as an organized group of individuals collectively interested in a range of topics) is epistemologically standard just in case (a) it has standard epistemological goals regarding its topics; (b) it uses standard methods to achieve those goals (perhaps tailored to suit the topics under discussion); and (c) it has some reasonable expectation of success. From this point of view, anti-exceptionalism about philosophy…
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