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Philosophy's Future


Philosophy's Future

The Problem of Philosophical Progress
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von: Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick

29,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 25.04.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781119210092
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 264

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<p><i>Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress</i> diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution.</p> <ul> <li>Offers the most up-to-date treatment of the intellectual and cultural value of contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectives</li> <li>Features contributions from distinguished philosophers such as Frank Jackson, Karen Green, Timothy Williamson, Jessica Wilson, and many others</li> <li>Explores the ways philosophical investigations of logic, world, mind, and moral responsibility continue to shape the empirical and theoretical sciences</li> <li>Considers the role of contemporary philosophy in political issues such as women’s rights, the discrimination of minorities, and public health</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Introduction I: Philosophy and the Perils of Progress 1<br /><i>Russell Blackford</i></p> <p>Introduction II: Philosophy on the Inclined Plane 13<br /><i>Damien Broderick</i></p> <p><b>Part 1 Roads to Progress in Philosophy 19</b></p> <p>1 Coming Out of the Shade 21<br /><i>Myisha Cherry</i></p> <p>2 What has Philosophy Ever Done for Us? 31<br /><i>James Ladyman</i></p> <p>3 Progress and Philosophy 41<br /><i>Noretta Koertge</i></p> <p>4 Only Connect 51<br /><i>Frank Jackson</i></p> <p><b>Part 2 Bumps in the Road, Rabbits in the Landscape 61</b></p> <p>5 Chmess, Abiding Significance, and Rabbit Holes 63<br /><i>Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay</i></p> <p>6 Philosophy as the Evocation of Conceptual Landscapes 75<br /><i>Massimo Pigliucci</i></p> <p>7 Three Barriers to Philosophical Progress 91<br /><i>Jessica Wilson</i></p> <p><b>Part 3 Cautious Optimism 105</b></p> <p>8 Is there Progress in Philosophy? A Brief Case for Optimism 107<br /><i>Daniel Stoljar</i></p> <p>9 Is Philosophy Progressing Fast Enough? 119<br /><i>Stuart Brock</i></p> <p>10 Does Philosophical Progress Matter? 133<br /><i>Richard Kamber</i></p> <p><b>Part 4 Philosophy and Science 145</b></p> <p>11 Between Gods and Apes: On the Lack of Scientific and Philosophical Progress 147<br /><i>Mark Walker</i></p> <p>12 Model?]Building in Philosophy 159<br /><i>Timothy Williamson</i></p> <p>13 Progress in Philosophy and in the Physical Sciences: How Far Does The Analogy Hold? 173<br /><i>Christopher Norris</i></p> <p><b>Part 5 Re-Imagining the Conversation 191</b></p> <p>14 Philosophy as “Intellectual War of Values” 193<br /><i>Stefan Lorenz Sorgner</i></p> <p>15 Re?]Imagining the Philosophical Conversation 201<br /><i>Karen Green</i></p> <p>16 David Lewis and the Kangaroo: Graphing Philosophical Progress 213<br /><i>Benj Hellie</i></p> <p>17 Philosophy, Progress, and Identity 227<br /><i>Ward E. Jones</i></p> <p>Index 241</p>
<p><b>R<small>USSELL</small> B<small>LACKFORD</small></b> is an Australian philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His many books include <i>Freedom of Religion and the Secular State</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2012), <i>The Mystery of Moral Authority</i> (2016) and <i>The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism</i> (2019). <p><b>D<small>AMIEN</small> B<small>RODERICK</small></b> is an award-winning Australian science and fiction writer, editor, and critical theorist, and a former Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is the author or editor of some 74 books including, as co-editor with Russell Blackford, <i>Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).
<p>The ancient discipline of philosophy, at one time the central intellectual forum for analyzing and understanding the human condition, has come under threat. With the rise of specialized sciences, philosophy relinquished jurisdiction over the empirically and theoretically tractable, and so finds its currency in asking questions without definitive answers. This has resulted in numerous challenges to its continued intellectual authority and cultural value. Has philosophy indeed lost its way in hyperspecialization and self-absorption, retreating from the rest of the world's concerns? Does the view held by some leading scientists have the ring of truth—that 21st-century advances in physics and cognitive neuroscience have rendered the venerable discipline all but obsolete? <p><i>Philosophy's Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress</i> presents 17 newly commissioned essays which suggest a range of paths toward academic consensus on philosophy's deepest puzzles. Distinguished contemporary philosophers present competing views on the future of the field, acknowledging its susceptibility to fashion and bias while reaffirming its fundamental value. Essays explore how philosophical investigations of logic, the world, mind, and moral responsibility shape and contribute to the empirical and theoretical sciences in the quest for new knowledge. At the same time, the collection unearths a sense of unease that contemporary philosophy has lost touch with its core principles, and urges course correction before it is too late. <p>Original and thought-provoking, <i>Philosophy's Future</i> diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution.

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