I’m confused about how it’s possible to know whether someone is making substantive progress on metaphilosophy; I’d be curious if you have pointers.
I guess it’s the same as any other philosophical topic, either use your own philosophical reasoning/judgement to decide how good the person’s ideas/arguments are, and/or defer to other people’s judgements. The fact that there is currently no methodology for doing this that is less subjective and informal is a major reason for me to be interested in metaphilosophy, since if we solve metaphilosophy that will hopefully give us a better methodology for judging all philosophical ideas, assuming the correct solution to metaphilosophy isn’t philosophical anti-realism (i.e., philosophical questions don’t have right or wrong answers), or something like that.
I guess it’s the same as any other philosophical topic, either use your own philosophical reasoning/judgement to decide how good the person’s ideas/arguments are, and/or defer to other people’s judgements. The fact that there is currently no methodology for doing this that is less subjective and informal is a major reason for me to be interested in metaphilosophy, since if we solve metaphilosophy that will hopefully give us a better methodology for judging all philosophical ideas, assuming the correct solution to metaphilosophy isn’t philosophical anti-realism (i.e., philosophical questions don’t have right or wrong answers), or something like that.