(Meta-Philosophy) Where to (Begin) Philosophy?

176 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2017

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Ulrich de Balbian

Meta-Philosophy Research Cente; Meta-Philosophy Research Center

Date Written: March 7, 2017

Abstract

If you wish to think/write about many dimensional things like the ‘world,’ persons, consciousness, human thinking etc, you should at least think multi-dimensional and many leveled.

Introduction: Questioning the purpose, the subject-matter and the methodology, methods of the discipline. I have already dealt in detail about the disappearance of different subject from the philosophical discourse with the differentiation of other disciplines, as well as the involvement in philosophy in inter-disciplinary areas such as cognitive sciences, the creation of experimental philosophy and the philosophies of other discourses, eg art, religion, science, mathematics, sport and every subject possible.

What remains as philosophy appears to subscribe to someism, which really is some kind of dogma and even an ideology. One further notices the employment of terms that traditionally form part of the discourse of philosophy in other disciplines, for example in social theory or sociology and the fact that almost everything, such as essays and theses, have an ontology, epistemology and methodology.

Philosophy has/is often interpreted as consisting of logic, that has its own discourse, while other aspects or forms of logic really form part of mathematics. The doing of philosophy as the doing of (usually informal) logic is in some way related to this belief. As far as the method of philosophy goes, it is always seen as employing arguments, argumentation and reasoning. But all kinds of writing and talking employ arguments, argumentation, reasoning and informal logic – not just philosophy.

These ‘characteristics’ of philosophy of the doing of philosophy is merely one of many kinds of thought, thinking, cognition and consciousness. Take as an example critical thinking – this is a ‘discipline’ or area of study of its own, like the other cognitive approaches, tools, techniques, models, theories, frameworks and practices I describe and/or list.

I conclude with a discussion from theoretical physics (in the past associated with the philosophical discourse) that provides us with ontologies as philosophy

Keywords: meta-philosophy, philosophical subject-matter, philosophical methods, philosophy must be multi-dimesnional

Suggested Citation

de Balbian, Ulrich and de Balbian, Ulrich, (Meta-Philosophy) Where to (Begin) Philosophy? (March 7, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2928571

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