Grad Seminar Research Questions on Method

Questions about Method in Philosophy

1. Does philosophy have "its own" methods?
2. What, if anything, is distinctive about the problem of method in philosophy in comparison to other fields?
3. Does method define philosophy? If not, what does?
4. What is the difference between using a method from an historical tradition and working from that tradition?
5. What is the difference between naturalism or phenomenology as a movement and as a set of methods?
6. How would you approach a taxonomy of method in philosophy?
7. 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?
8. Do different philosophical methods produce philosophical writing with different temporal and geographic validity?
9. Maybe philosopher is a much more of a national literature than we think it is. When we admire Gadamer are we admiring something German?