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ISBN-13 : 9780192555465

Author : Timothy Williamson 

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy’s ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences. He also shows how logical rigour can be understood as a way of enhancing the explanatory power of philosophical theories. Drawing on the history of philosophy to provide a track record of philosophical thinking’s successes and failures, Williamson overturns widely held dogmas about the distinctive nature of philosophy in comparison to the sciences, demystifies its methods, and considers the future of the discipline. From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this little book will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is.

Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Starting from Common Sense
Common Sense in Philosophy
What Is Common Sense?
Common-Sense Questions, Philosophical Questions
Common Sense as a Check on Philosophy
Fallibility about Evidence
The Reliability of Common Sense
3. Disputing
Two Sides of an Argument
Adversarial Philosophy
Logic Games
Dialogues
4. Clarifying Terms
It Depends on What You Mean
Concepts and Conceptions
Clarifying and Theorizing
5. Doing Thought Experiments
Use Your Imagination
Thought Experiments and Real-Life Experiments
Knowing by Imagining
Intuition?
Biases
6. Comparing Theories
Theories of Everything
Testing Theories by Thought Experiment
Rival Theories
Inference to the Best Explanation
7. Deducing
Deduction in Philosophy and Elsewhere
Validity and Soundness
Abduction in Logic and Mathematics
Non-Neutral Logic
Logic and Philosophy
8. Using the History of Philosophy
Is Philosophy History?
Monuments and Influence
Can the History of Philosophy Help Solve Philosophical Problems?
9. Using Other Fields
History
Social Anthropology
Linguistics
Psychology
Economics
Computer Science
Biology
Physics
Mathematics
10. Model-Building
Models in Science
Models in Philosophy
Extensional Semantics
Intensional Semantics
Working Models, Counterexamples, and Error-Fragility
11. Conclusion: The Future of Philosophy

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