The paper deals with the explanation of subject metaphilosophy as a philosophical science. main themes and problems are formulated, its interrelation other subjects fields research is clarified. author proposes some methodological principles that essential in dealing such an important problem relationship between doctrine life thinker who created it. This examined through G. Skovoroda. also ide...

David Lewis was one of the most important philosophers of the 20 century working in the Anglo-American analytic tradition. His corpus is extraordinary for its breadth of subject matter and for its systematicity. For both these reasons, it is difficult to do justice to his work in a short space—there are rich interconnections among his myriad writings, and numerous possible entry points. This ar...

Philosophical progress is one of the most controversial topics in metaphilosophy. It has been widely debated whether philosophy makes any history. This paper revisits concept philosophical progress. first identifies two criteria an ideal then argues that our accounts fail to provide such concept. Finally, it not only do we have a good progress, also need order arrive at understanding history ph...

This paper is an essay on metaphilosophy that reviews, describes, categorises, and discusses different ways philosophers have approached the justification of abduction as a mode reasoning arguing. Advocating argumentative approach to abduction, I model philosophical debate over its critical assessment warrant-establishing argument allowing “H explains D” be used reason for can inferred from D.”...

In this paper, I try to outline what take be Naming and Necessity's fundamental legacy my generation those that follow, the new perspectives it has opened up for twenty-first century philosophy. The discussion is subdivided into three sections, concerning respectively philosophy of language, metaphysics, metaphilosophy. general unifying theme Necessity helping recover a Golden Age, by freeing f...

In this interview, Ruth Groff discusses how she came to be a realist, her role as community organizer, relationship critical realism, and various issues arising from published work over the years. Discussion ranges across nature of positivism its legacy, concept falsehood, realism about causal powers, mind-independent reality, history philosophy, underlying interest in ideology-critique that ru...