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Presuppositional analysis and the goal of metaphysical inquiry (2024)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G. (2024). Presuppositional analysis and the goal of metaphysical inquiry. In Interpreting R.G Collingwood: Critical Essays (143-160). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337021.009

Metaphysics is often understood as an inquiry into the fundamental structures of reality. Collingwood, by contrast, defends a view of metaphysics on which its role is not to advance knowledge of fundamental reality but to deepen our understanding of... Read More about Presuppositional analysis and the goal of metaphysical inquiry.

The sense of the past: Bernard Williams and R.G Collingwood on humanistic and scientific knowledge (2024)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G., & Connelly, J. The sense of the past: Bernard Williams and R.G Collingwood on humanistic and scientific knowledge. . Oxford University Press

To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2023). To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge. In P.F. Strawson and His Legacy. In Audun Bengtson, Benjamin De Mesel and Sybren Heyndels (eds.) (192-211). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858474.003.0010

How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.

Why Collingwood Matters: A Defence of Humanistic understanding (2023)
Book
D'oro, G. (2023). Why Collingwood Matters: A Defence of Humanistic understanding. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed (2022)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2022). Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed

Logical positivism famously dismissed metaphysics as meaningless. It failed to satisfy the verification criterion, according to which for any statement to be meaningful, it has to be able to be verified empirically. As positivists like A.J. Ayer argu... Read More about Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed.

Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed (2022)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2022). Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed

Logical positivism famously dismissed metaphysics as meaningless. It failed to satisfy the verification criterion, according to which for any statement to be meaningful, it has to be able to be verified empirically. As positivists like A.J. Ayer argu... Read More about Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed.

The Leopard Does Not Change Its Spots: Naturalism and the Argument against Methodological Pluralism in the Sciences (2022)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2022). The Leopard Does Not Change Its Spots: Naturalism and the Argument against Methodological Pluralism in the Sciences. In The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy: Around Logical Empiricism (185-208). https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350159235.ch-008

The leopard does not change its spots:naturalism and the argument against methodological pluralism in the sciences (2022)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2022). The leopard does not change its spots:naturalism and the argument against methodological pluralism in the sciences. In The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy: Before and After Logical Empiricism

Imagination and Revision (2021)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G., & Jonas, A. (2021). Imagination and Revision. In The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (215-232). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367821814-14

Presupposti assoluti. Collingwood e l'autonomia delle scienze umane (2021)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G. (2021). Presupposti assoluti. Collingwood e l'autonomia delle scienze umane. In Fotografare l'intelligenza artificiale. Editice Dominican Italiana