All Outputs (21)

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.

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

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/10.4324/9781315180854-7

Claims 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.

British Idealism (2019)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. British Idealism. In A Companion to 19th Century Philosophy (365-388). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119210054.ch14

This 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.

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

Why epistemic pluralism does not entail relativism (2018)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2018). Why epistemic pluralism does not entail relativism. In Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology

There 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.

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

Collingwood's Idealist Metaontology: Between Therapy and Armchair Science (2017)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood's Idealist Metaontology: Between Therapy and Armchair Science. In The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (211 -228)

Introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (2017)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2017). Introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology. In The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (x-xiv). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316344118

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2016). Introduction. In The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (x-xiv)

History and Idealism: Collingwood and Oakeshott (2015)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2015). History and Idealism: Collingwood and Oakeshott. In The Routledge companion to hermeneutics (191 -204)

The philosophy of time is a branch of metaphysics that is concerned with questions concerning the nature of time. Is time real? Are past, present and future real properties of events or are they relative properties that events have only in virtue of... Read More about History and Idealism: Collingwood and Oakeshott.

The logocentric predicament and the logic of question and answer (2014)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2014). The logocentric predicament and the logic of question and answer. In Other logics: alternatives to formal logic in the history of thought and contemporary philosophy (221 - 234 (14))

From anti-causalism to causalism and back (2013)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G., & Sandis, C. (2013). From anti-causalism to causalism and back. In Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Anti-causalism in the Philosophy of Action