What Philosophers Know Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy

Name: What Philosophers Know Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521672221

ISBN-10: 0521672228

ISBN-13: 9780521672221

Edition: 2009

Authors: Gary Gutting

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Philosophy has never delivered on its promise to settle the great moral and religious questions of human existence, and even most philosophers conclude that it does not offer an established body of disciplinary knowledge. Gary Gutting challenges this view by examining detailed case studies of recent achievements by analytic philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Gettier, Lewis, Chalmers, Plantinga, Kuhn, Rawls, and Rorty. He shows that these philosophers have indeed produced a substantial body of disciplinary knowledge, but he challenges many common views about what philosophers have achieved. Topics discussed include the role of argument in philosophy, naturalist and experimentalist…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction



How Does That Go? The Limits of Philosophical Argument



Quine's 'Two Dogmas': argument or imagination?



Argument and intuition in Kripke's Naming and Necessity



The rise and fall of counterexamples: Gettier, Goldman, and Lewis



Reflection: pictures, intuitions, and philosophical knowledge



Arguments and Convictions



Turning the tables: Plantinga and the rise of the philosophy of religion



Materialism and compatibilism: two dogmas of analytic philosophy?



Was there a Kuhnian revolution? Convictions in the philosophy of science



Conviction and argument in Rawls' A Theory of Justice



Philosophical Truth and Knowledge



Rorty against the world: philosophy, truth, and objectivity



Philosophical knowledge: summary and application


References