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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/9780192858474.003.0010

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.

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 known

This 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.

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.

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.2018.1484001

This 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.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.

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/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1

Explores 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.

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.

Between ontological hubris and epistemic humility: Collingwood, Kant and the role of transcendental arguments (2018)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2018). Between ontological hubris and epistemic humility: Collingwood, Kant and the role of transcendental arguments. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1471660

This paper explores and defends a form of transcendental argument that is neither bold in its attempt to answer the sceptic, as ambitious transcendental strategies, nor epistemically humble, as modest transcendental strategies. While ambitious transc... Read More about Between ontological hubris and epistemic humility: Collingwood, Kant and the role of transcendental arguments.

The Touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events (2018)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2018). The Touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events. Philosophical Explorations, 160-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2017.1421697

It is the ambition of natural science to provide complete explanations of reality. Collingwood argues that science can only explain events, not actions. The latter is the distinctive subject matter of history and can be described as actions only if t... Read More about The Touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events.

Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

he philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophic... Read More about Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism.

Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

The philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophi... Read More about Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction.

Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

The philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophi... Read More about Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism.

The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 41-65

It is sometimes assumed that justification is factive. A negative implication of this claim is that reasons are not psychological entities such as believings or desirings. Another, positive, implication of this claim is that there is an important con... Read More about The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting.

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

Unlikely bedfellows?: Collingwood, Carnap and the internal/external distinction (2015)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2015). Unlikely bedfellows?: Collingwood, Carnap and the internal/external distinction. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 802-817. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1052961

Idealism is often associated with the kind of metaphysical system building which was successfully disposed of by logical positivism. As Hume’s fork was intended to deliver a serious blow to Leibnizian metaphysics so logical positivism invoked the ver... Read More about Unlikely bedfellows?: Collingwood, Carnap and the internal/external distinction.

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.

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

Reasons and Causes (2013)
Book
Laitinen, A., Sandis, C., & D'oro, G. (Eds.). (2013). Reasons and Causes. Springer

Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors), experts in the field re-evaluate the history and current state of the reasons/causes debate.

Understanding others: cultural anthropology with Collingwood and Quine (2013)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2013). Understanding others: cultural anthropology with Collingwood and Quine. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 326 - 345 (20)

On one meaning of the term “historicism” to be a historicist is to be committed to the claim that the human sciences have a methodology of their own that is distinct in kind and not only in degree from that of the natural sciences. In this sense of t... Read More about Understanding others: cultural anthropology with Collingwood and Quine.

Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy (2012)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2012). Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy. Ratio, 34 -50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00514.x

Collingwood has failed to make a significant impact in the history of twentieth century philosophy either because he has been dismissed as a dusty old idealist committed to the very metaphysics the analytical school was trying to leave behind, or bec... Read More about Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy.

Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war (2011)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2011). Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 207 -221. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.583930

Since the publication of Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons and Causes” the philosophy of action has been dominated by the view that rational explanations are a species of causal explanations. Although there are dissenting voices, anti-causalism is for the... Read More about Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war.

The Ontological Backlash: why did mainstream analytic philosophy lose interest in the philosophy of history? (2008)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2008). The Ontological Backlash: why did mainstream analytic philosophy lose interest in the philosophy of history?. Philosophia, 403 -415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-008-9135-7

This paper seeks to explain why mainstream analytic philosophy lost interest in the philosophy of history. It suggests that the reasons why the philosophy of history no longer commands the attention of mainstream analytical philosophy may be explaine... Read More about The Ontological Backlash: why did mainstream analytic philosophy lose interest in the philosophy of history?.

Editors' introduction (2005)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2005). Editors' introduction. In R.G. Collingwood: An Essay on Philosophical Method (13 -117)