The Philosophy of PhilosophyJohn Wiley & Sons, 30 apr 2008 - 348 pagina's The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.
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1 The Linguistic Turn and the Conceptual Turn | 10 |
2 Taking Philosophical Questions at Face Value | 23 |
3 Metaphysical Conceptions of Analyticity | 48 |
4 Epistemological Conceptions of Analyticity | 73 |
5 Knowledge of Metaphysical Modality | 134 |
6 Thought Experiments | 179 |
7 Evidence in Philosophy | 208 |
8 Knowledge Maximization | 247 |
Afterword Must Do Better | 278 |
Appendix 1 Modal Logic within Counterfactual Logic | 293 |
Appendix 2 Counterfactual Donkeys | 305 |
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