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- Interpreting R. G. Collingwood
- Interpreting R. G. Collingwood
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Collingwood: Beyond Idealism
- Part II Issues in Collingwood’s Philosophy
- Chapter 7 Collingwood’s Logic of Question and Answer
- Chapter 8 Presuppositional Analysis and the Goal of Metaphysical Inquiry
- Chapter 9 Is Collingwood a Process Philosopher?
- Chapter 10 Collingwood on Imagination
- Chapter 11 Collingwood on “Painting Imaginatively” and the Expressive Nature of the Artwork
- Chapter 12 Collingwood’s Influence on Baxandall
- Chapter 13 “Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art
- Chapter 14 What Is Living and What Is Dead in Collingwood’s New Leviathan?
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Collingwood’s Logic of Question and Answer
Connecting the Dots
from Part II - Issues in Collingwood’s Philosophy
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- Interpreting R. G. Collingwood
- Interpreting R. G. Collingwood
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Collingwood: Beyond Idealism
- Part II Issues in Collingwood’s Philosophy
- Chapter 7 Collingwood’s Logic of Question and Answer
- Chapter 8 Presuppositional Analysis and the Goal of Metaphysical Inquiry
- Chapter 9 Is Collingwood a Process Philosopher?
- Chapter 10 Collingwood on Imagination
- Chapter 11 Collingwood on “Painting Imaginatively” and the Expressive Nature of the Artwork
- Chapter 12 Collingwood’s Influence on Baxandall
- Chapter 13 “Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art
- Chapter 14 What Is Living and What Is Dead in Collingwood’s New Leviathan?
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that Collingwood’s “logic of question and answer” (LQA) can best be understood in the light of contemporary argumentation theory. Even if Collingwood quite often describes LQA in terms of inner thinking and reasoning, as was still usual in his time, his insistence on the normative (“criteriological”) character of LQA, paired with his attack on the pretensions of psychologists to describe logic (as well as other normative endeavours) in a purely empirical manner, makes clear that LQA has the same aspirations as the rising discipline of formal (mathematical) logic. The concise exposition of the form, content, and application of LQA is supported by references to all the relevant passages in Collingwood’s oeuvre as well as illustrated by means of a concrete example of his way of doing history. Although a recent and still developing discipline, contemporary argumentation theory was born as an attempt to describe and analyze argumentative texts as guided by norms constitutive of our argumentative practices in a way that completely escapes formal logic. It thus provides a place for LQA that has so far been lacking.
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- Interpreting R. G. CollingwoodCritical Essays, pp. 123 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024