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Insightful reflective and wide ranging thinking off your feet how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy by michael strevens offers a thought provoking answer the form this answer takes is not so much an empirical examination of the psychological features of armchair inquiry or at least not so directly. Thinking off your feet is an outstanding book that will make a splash it proposes an original defense of philosophical analysis and of its main tool the method of cases it is an impressive defense of armchair philosophy as it is by and large currently practiced and is also an important contribution to the cognitive science of concepts. Thinking off your feet how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy harvard university press 2019 what is going on under the hood in philosophical analysis that familiar process that attempts to uncover the nature of such philosophically interesting kinds as knowledge causation and justice by the method of posit and counterexample. Thinking off your feet book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy as want to read how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy write a review jeremy byrd rated it really liked it jul 25 2019 simon kidd marked it as to read. Thinking off your feet how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy by michael strevens many philosophers believe they can gain knowledge about the world from the comfort of their armchairs simply by reflecting on the nature of things but how can the mind arrive at substantive knowledge of the world without seeking its input michael strevens proposes an original defense of the