Philosophy within its proper bounds
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 p…
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- 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.
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- 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, 9780198825883, 0198825889
- oclc:on1013915450
- Dewey Decimal:190
Table of Contents
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 is rebooted.
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