Oxford: Academic Publishers (
2017)
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Abstract
I intended to deal with the different sections or chapters in one volume, but as certain sections or chapters are very long, like chapter 1, THEORIZING AND PHILOSOPHIZING (VOLUME 1), I divided some of them into separate volumes, chapter 2 HEURISTICS AND PROBLEMSOLVING (Volume 2) and chapter 3 IMAGINARY EXPERIMENTS AND METAPHORS (Vol 3).
In Volume 1 THEORIZING AND PHILOSOPHIZING (VOLUME 1) I show that and how (the different features, steps and stages of) philosophizing resemble the processes of theorizing.
I deal with a number of basic approaches that philosophers employ to do philosophy. These approaches form part of the traditional methodologies of all Philosophy.
The processes and techniques of doing philosophy resemble the techniques and methods one finds in different steps, stages and features of the processes of theorizing, theory development and construction. As many philosophers lack meta-cognitive awareness of what they are doing (namely theorizing) and how they are doing it (the techniques of the different steps and stages of theorizing) they do not complete the entire process of theorizing and theory development, but instead concentrate on only certain features of it.
The different features, steps and stages of theorizing are explained and the doing of philosophy is compared with them.