Rechnitzer, Tanja: More than a Method? Reflective Equilibrium and the Structure of Philosophical Inquiry

_Synthese_. forthcomingReflective Equilibrium (RE) is often cited as an influential philosophical method but faces a range of objections, including that it is overly demanding, vacuous, or methodologically irrelevant. This paper identifies a fundamental issue that complicates both the evaluation of RE and broader discussions of philosophical methodology: the lack of clarity about what constitutes a method in philosophy, what we expect from such a method, and what kinds of objections against it a