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EXAMINING PHILOSOPHY ITSELF
One of the most distinctive features of philosophy is self-reflection. Philosophers are not only concerned with metaphysical, epistemological, conceptual, ethical, and aesthetic issues of things around us, they also pay serious attention to the nature, value, methods, and development of philosophy itself. This book examines some of the most important metaphilosophical issues: Is philosophy progressive? Are metaphysical claims meaningful? What is the aim of philosophy? Should analytic metaphysics be replaced by naturalised metaphysics? What is the prospect of a digital approach to philosophy of science? Can poetry play a substantial role in philosophy? Examining Philosophy Itself will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction: The Unexamined Philosophy Is Not Worth Doing 1
Yafeng Shan
Part 1: Defending Philosophy 9
1 Metametaphysics and Semantics 11
Timothy Williamson
2 Philosophy Doesn't Need a Concept of Progress 29
Yafeng Shan
3 T-Philosophy 43
Chris Daly
Part 2: How to Do Philosophy 61
4 On the Continuity of Metaphysics with Science: Some Scepticism and Some Suggestions 63
Jack Ritchie
5 In Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy 89
Herman Cappelen and Matthew Mckeever
6 Testing and Discovery: Responding to Challenges to Digital Philosophy of Science 111
Charles H. Pence
7 Attentional Progress by Conceptual Engineering 133
Eve Kitsik
8 The Philosophy of Logical Practice 151
Ben Martin
9 One Philosopher's Modus Ponens Is Another's Modus Tollens: Pantomemes and Nisowir 175
Jon Williamson
10 Linking Perspectives: A Role for Poetry in Philosophical Inquiry 203
Karen Simecek
Part 3: Doing Philosophy 221
11 Grounding Interventionism: Conceptual and Epistemological Challenges 223
Amanda Bryant
12 Impossible Worlds and the Safety of Philosophical Beliefs 253
Zack Garrett and Zachariah Wrublewski
Index 277
About the author
YAFENG SHAN is a research fellow in epistemology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. at University College London. His main interests are philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy. He is the author of
Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020) and the editor of
New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (2022). He has also published research articles in such journals as
Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, and
Philosophy Compass.
Summary
EXAMINING PHILOSOPHY ITSELF
One of the most distinctive features of philosophy is self-reflection. Philosophers are not only concerned with metaphysical, epistemological, conceptual, ethical, and aesthetic issues of things around us, they also pay serious attention to the nature, value, methods, and development of philosophy itself. This book examines some of the most important metaphilosophical issues: Is philosophy progressive? Are metaphysical claims meaningful? What is the aim of philosophy? Should analytic metaphysics be replaced by naturalised metaphysics? What is the prospect of a digital approach to philosophy of science? Can poetry play a substantial role in philosophy? Examining Philosophy Itself will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy.
