About Me

I am a PhD student in Philosophy at Peking University, now staying at Universität zu Köln, Germany. My interests are primarily in Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and Analytic Phenomenology. Now I am working on my Dissertation: Method, Intentionality, and Knowledge--An essay in analytic phenomenology. --------- I also have substantial interest in Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Ethics.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fallacies

One can not expect one can get all things right with a single method, perhaps more so in philoyophy. But one may design a reliable method with which some problems can be reliably solved.A reliable philosophical method must enable one to spot fallacies in one's philosophical thinking. Now for analysis, there are data, processes and products. When the product seems to be obviously defective, then one can go back to processes or data. If one finds problem with the process, then one can obviously spot the defective products.

When the whole procedure goes right, then one does not have much to complain,but of course philosophical analyses often goes wrong.To figure out what is wrong, one must see the symptoms, and the corresponding problems. One gives them names, classifies them, and the second time one sees it, it will be easier to do the diagnosis and correct the mistakes.

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