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  • Chapter 3 - Philosophy

  • Edited by Jonathan Jansen, Stellenbosch University
  • Book:
    On Discovery
    Published online:
    05 May 2025
    Print publication:
    22 May 2025, pp 35-46

  • Summary

    This chapter is a reflection on three intellectual moves that tend to be revealing and influential in English-speaking philosophy, set in an autobiographical context. One move is to apply a new method to an issue that has been treated for a long time in other ways. A second is to look for data that are not entailed or adequately explained by existing theories and then to develop a theory that accounts for them while also making sense of data for which existing theories can account. The third is to find an assumption common to two long-standing disputants and advance an alternative to them both that does not rely on it. This essay includes strategic advice for budding philosophers who might want to take such approaches to their work.