Presuppositional analysis and the goal of metaphysical inquiry
(2024)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G. (in press). Presuppositional analysis and the goal of metaphysical inquiry. In Interpreting Collingwood: Critical Essay (143-160). CUP
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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/9780192858474.003.0010How 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 failedLogical 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 failedLogical 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
Beyond narrativism: the historical past and why it can be known (2021)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2021). Beyond narrativism: the historical past and why it can be knownThis paper examines narrativism’s claim that the historical past cannot be known once and for all because it must be continuously re-described from the standpoint of the present. We argue that this claim is based on a non sequitur. We take narrativis... Read More about Beyond narrativism: the historical past and why it can be known.
Robin George Collingwood (2020)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2020). Robin George Collingwood
In Defence of a Humanistically oriented Historiography (2020)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2021). In Defence of a Humanistically oriented Historiography. In Philosophy of History: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (216–236). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350111875.0019
How to (and not to) defend the manifest image (2019)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2019). How to (and not to) defend the manifest image. In Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315180854-7Claims such as ‘there are no tables and chairs’ have become increasingly common in the philosophical context, and eliminativism is a fairly well-established position in contemporary debates in analytic metaphysics. Locating manifest properties requir... Read More about How to (and not to) defend the manifest image.
Non-Redcuctivism and the Metaphilosophy of Mind (2019)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2019). Non-Redcuctivism and the Metaphilosophy of Mind. Inquiry, 477-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2018.1484001This paper discusses the metaphilosophical assumptions that have dominated analytic philosophy of mind, and how they gave rise to the central question that the best-known forms of non-reductivism available have sought to answer, namely: how can mind... Read More about Non-Redcuctivism and the Metaphilosophy of Mind.
British Idealism (2019)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (in press). British Idealism. In A Companion to 19th Century Philosophy (365-388). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119210054.ch14This chapter identifies some themes in British idealism, especially those which resonate in contemporary debates, through an examination of T.H. Green, F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart. It focuses primarily on metaphysics and epistemology, supplemen... Read More about British Idealism.
Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology (2019)
Book
Dharamsi, K., D'Oro, G., & Leach, S. (Eds.). (2019). Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology. Springer: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1Explores an under-served area: investigates Collingwood's main treatises in specific relation to the field of philosophical methodology Offers currency: shows the relationship between Collingwood and contemporary philosophical pragmatism, and so d... Read More about Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology.
On an Imaginary Dialogue between a Causalist and an Anti-Causalist (2019)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2019). On an Imaginary Dialogue between a Causalist and an Anti-Causalist. In Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches (97-111)
The armchair and the pickaxe: introduction (2018)
Book Chapter
Dharamsi, K., D'Oro, G., & Leach, S. (2018). The armchair and the pickaxe: introduction. In Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1
The armchair and the pickaxe: introduction (2018)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2018). The armchair and the pickaxe: introduction. In Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1
Why epistemic pluralism does not entail relativism (2018)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2018). Why epistemic pluralism does not entail relativism. In Collingwood on Philosophical MethodologyThere is a widespread view according to which the denial that the conditions of knowledge are truth-evaluable inevitably leads to a form of epistemic pluralism that is both quietist and internally incoherent. It is quietist because it undermines the... Read More about Why epistemic pluralism does not entail relativism.