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==Questions and Hypotheses about Method in Philosophy==

#  Does philosophy have "its own" methods?  
#  What, if anything, is distinctive about the problem of method in philosophy in comparison to other fields?
#  Does method define philosophy?  If not, what does?
#  What is the difference between using a method from an historical tradition and working from that tradition?
#  What is the difference between naturalism or phenomenology as a movement and as a set of methods?
#  How would you approach a taxonomy of method in philosophy?
#  Is philosophy a kind of literature within culture, similar to other forms of cultural production, or does have a different relation to culture than other disciplines?
#  Do different philosophical methods produce philosophical writing with different temporal and geographic validity?
#  Hypothesis: Philosophy is a much more of a national literature than we think it is.  When we admire Gadamer are we admiring something from German philosophical culture.
#  Hypothesis: Your method includes both the tools and traditions you tend to work from, as well as meta-beliefs about the status of those tools.