Ethnographic Philosophy
A Qualitative Method for Naturalised Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helene Scott-Fordsmand (0000-0002-3527-1340, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.70031 |
| OpenAlex | W4408382443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 126 |
Recent years have seen a rise in the engagement with empirical methods in philosophy. However, explicit discussion of the method and methodology behind such approaches is scarce, in particular for engagement with qualitative ethnographic styles of empirical research. This entry gathers debates from various philosophical subfields where ethnography has found a philosophical use. First, I introduce ethnography and highlight different versions through examples from phenomenology, political philosophy, ethics and philosophy of science. Then, I address three common challenges raised against the relevance and legitimacy of ethnographic philosophy, some specific to ethnography, others shared with experimental philosophy and integrated history and philosophy of science. The entry ends by suggesting some benefits of ethnographic philosophy, including a potential for genuine surprise, the opportunity to fine-tune and enrichen concepts and a better grasp at philosophical significance in human lives. In addition, I note that ethnography encourages more thoroughgoing philosophical self-reflection about contextual and situational features of philosophical theories and about the particularities of the philosophers developing them, introducing the idea of 'naturalising the philosopher
Epistemology · Ethnography · Sociology · Anthropology · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
Lexical Equivalents in Native Tongue and L2 behind Agta-Tabangnon’s Ethnomathematics and Cultural Practices
Ethnomathematical and Cultural Practices of Tribal Community in the Philippines from a Sociolinguistic Lens
The Madurese tribe’s indigenous knowledge in environmental preservation on Gili Ketapang Island, Indonesia
A feeling for the organism
Evocative Autoethnography
Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management
Data Analysis in Qualitative Research
Solitary Confinement
Abductive Analysis
Illness
Phenomenology of Perception
Cognition in the Wild
Essentials of interpretative phenomenological analysis.
The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method
Framing a phenomenological interview
Describing one’s subjective experience in the second person
Thematic Analysis
The Interpretation of Cultures
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Ethnography
Integrating qualitative research methodologies and phenomenology—using dancers’ and athletes’ experiences for phenomenological analysis
Can we trust the phenomenological interview? Metaphysical, epistemological, and methodological objections
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research
Understanding philosophy
Applied phenomenology
Epistemology Naturalized
Autoethnography
Doing Ethnography
Solitary Confinement
Ethnography
Investigating research practices
The qualitative study of scientific imagination
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
The Method to “Meaning”
What Has History to Do with Cognition? Interactive Methods for Studying Research Laboratories
Much ado about mice
The Meaning of “Phenomenology”
Modeling complexity
Decolonising philosophical analysis
Throwing like a girl
Fusing Philosophy and Fieldwork in a Study of Being a Person in the World
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science
The Gap Between "Is" and "Should
On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research
Philosophy in Science
Naturalistic inquiry
Being Ethnographic
Key Concepts in Ethnography
Integrating History and Philosophy of Science
Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Fieldwork in Political Theory
Can ethnography save the life of medical ethics
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
A Method of Phenomenological Interviewing
Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Situated Knowledges
Anthropology and Bioethics
On Reflexivity
Phenomenological Ethnography in Sociology and Anthropology
Getting it right
How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Provincializing bioethics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |