Introduction: Methods of Philosophy

INTRODUCTION: METHODS OF PHILOSOPHY. A critical examination of its method(s) belongs to the core business of philosophy from its beginnings. In recent discussion, however, metaphilosophical issues have gained an especially prominent role. As a constant flood of publications shows, metaphilosophy and philosophical metholodogy are among the areas in which the current debates are most lively.1The international conference hosted in 2017 by the Faculty of Philosophy of the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, and organised by Elisabetta Sacchi, Sarah Songhorian and Stefano Bacin with the support of the research centres CESEP, CRESA, CRISI, DIAPOREIN, GENDER, and PERSONA, aimed at gathering contributions on methodological issues in different fields of current philosophical studies: analytic philosophy, ethics, phenomenology, philosophy and gender issues, and history of ideas. The sections of this issue include most of the papers presented at that conference.