Philosophy within its proper bounds

by Machery, Edouard

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Title Statements

Full title :Philosophy within its proper bounds / Edouard Machery.

Summary

Edouard Machery argues that resolving many traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that philosophy should re-orient itself toward more humble, but ultimately more important intellectual endeavours. Any resolution to many of these contemporary issues would require an epistemic access to metaphysical possibilities and necessities, which, Machery argues, we do not have. In effect, then, this work defends a form of modal skepticism. It assesses the main philosophical method for acquiring the modal knowledge that the resolution of modally immodest philosophical issues turns on: the method of cases, that is, the consideration of actual or hypothetical situations (which cases or thought experiments describe) in order to determine what facts hold in these situations.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 272 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198807520, 019880752X
oclc:ocn986237006
LC Classification:B837
Dewey Decimal:149/.73

Introduction -- The Method of Cases -- The Empirical Findings -- Fooled by Cognitive Artifacts -- Enshrining Our Prejudices -- Eight Defenses of the Method of Cases: Amateur Psychology, Reflection, Expertise, Limited Influence, Fallibility, Reform, Mischaracterization, and Overgeneralization -- Modal Ignorance and the Limits of Philosophy -- Conceptual Analysis Rebooted -- Postscript.