An Introduction to Metaphilosophy

Søren Overgaard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Husserl and Heidegger on Being in the World (2004) and Wittgenstein and Other Minds (2007) and co-editor (with Sebastian Luft) of The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (2011). Paul Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull. He is the author of New Terror, New Wars (2003), The World, the Flesh and the Subject (with Kathleen Lennon, 2005) and Cultural Identity and Political Ethics (2010). Stephen Burwood is Head of the Department of Humanities at the University of Hull. He is the author of Philosophy of Mind (with Kathleen Lennon and Paul Gilbert, 1998).

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• 1. Introduction: what good is metaphilosophy?; 2. What is philosophy?; 3. Philosophy, science and the humanities; 4. The data of philosophy; 5. Analytic and continental philosophy; 6. Philosophy and the pursuit of truth; 7. What is good philosophy?; 8. What good is philosophy?