Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: The Armchair and the Pickaxe

   • Karim Dharamsi, Giuseppina D’Oro, Stephen Leach

   Pages 1-14

3. An Essay on Collingwood

   • Bernard Williams

   Pages 15-34

4. The Development of Collingwood’s Metaphilosophical Views

   • James Connelly

   Pages 35-75

5. Collingwood on the Relationship Between Metaphysics and History

   • Jan van der Dussen

   Pages 77-109

6. Presuppositions and the Logic of Question and Answer

   • Vasso Kindi

   Pages 111-130

7. Collingwood, Pragmatism, and Philosophy of Science

   • Elena Popa

   Pages 131-149

8. Why Epistemic Pluralism Does not Entail Relativism: Collingwood’s Hinge Epistemology

   • Giuseppina D’Oro

   Pages 151-175

9. Oscillation and Emancipation: Collingwood on History and Human Nature

   • Karim Dharamsi

   Pages 177-207

10. Collingwood and the Philosophy of History: The Metaphilosophical Dimension

    • Jonas Ahlskog

    Pages 209-227

11. The Later Collingwood on Method: Re-Enactment and Abduction

    • Chinatsu Kobayashi, Mathieu Marion

    Pages 229-248

12. Collingwood and Archaeological Theory

    • Stephen Leach

    Pages 249-264

13. Back Matter

    Pages 265-270

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This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis. It explores questions, such as, is there anything distinctive about the activity of philosophizing? If so, what distinguishes philosophy from other forms of inquiry? What is the relation between philosophy and science and between philosophy and history? 


For much of the twentieth century, philosophers philosophized with little self-awareness; Collingwood was exceptional in the attention he paid to the activity of philosophizing.  This book will be of interest both to those who are interested in Collingwood’s philosophy and, more generally, to all who are interested in the question ‘what is philosophy?’

• Methodology
• Philosophical analysis
• Metaphilosophy
• Metaphysics
• Idealism

“Many of the chapters are good (some of them very good), and the volume occupies an important historical place as the first collection on the metaphilosophy of this philosopher of the highest calibre. Accordingly, it would make a valuable addition to any university library as a resource for Collingwood scholars.” (James Camien McGuiggan, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 50 (5), October, 2019)

• Department of General Education, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada

  Karim Dharamsi

• School of Politics, IR and Philosophy, Keele University, UK

  Giuseppina D'Oro, Stephen Leach

Karim Dharamsi is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of General Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He has published articles in the philosophy of history, on the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Frege, the philosophy of education and liberal education.

Giuseppina D'Oro is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University, UK. She is the author of Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (2002). She co-edited, with James Connelly, Collingwood's An Essay on Philosophical Method (2005), with Constantine Sandis, Reasons and Causes: the Causalism/Anti-Causalism Debate in the Philosophy of Action (2013) and with Søren Overgaard, The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology (2017).

Stephen Leach is Honorary Senior Fellow at Keele University, UK. He is the author of The Foundations of History: Collingwood’s Analysis of Historical Explanation (2009) and with James Connelly and Peter Johnson, R.G. Collingwood: A Research Companion (2015). With James Tartaglia, he has edited Consciousness and the Great Philosophers (2017) and The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (2018). 

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