Examining Philosophy Itself

by Shan, Yafeng

• ISBN13: 9781394160716
• ISBN10: 1394160712
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-03-13
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

EXAMINING PHILOSOPHY ITSELF

One of the most distinctive features of philosophy is self-reflection. Philosophers are not only concerned with metaphysical, epistemological, conceptual, ethical, and aesthetic issues of things around us, they also pay serious attention to the nature, value, methods, and development of philosophy itself. This book examines some of the most important metaphilosophical issues: Is philosophy progressive? Are metaphysical claims meaningful? What is the aim of philosophy? Should analytic metaphysics be replaced by naturalised metaphysics? What is the prospect of a digital approach to philosophy of science? Can poetry play a substantial role in philosophy? Examining Philosophy Itself will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy.

Author Biography

Yafeng Shan is Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Kent, UK. He completed his Ph.D. at University College London. His main interests are philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy. He is the author of Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020) and the editor of New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (2022). He has also published research articles in such journals as Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, and Philosophy Compass.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The unexamined philosophy is not worth doing (Yafeng Shan, University of Kent)
Part 1: Defending philosophy
1. Metametaphysics and semantics (Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford)
2. Philosophy doesn’t need a concept of progress (Yafeng Shan, University of Kent)
3. T-Philosophy (Chris Daly, University of Manchester)
Part 2: How to do philosophy
4. On the continuity of metaphysics with science: Some scepticism and some suggestions (Jack Ritchie, University of Cape Town)                                                                                                                             
5. In defense of ordinary language philosophy (Herman Cappelen and Matthew Mckeever, University of Hong Kong)
6. Testing and discovery: Responding to challenges to digital philosophy of science (Charles H. Pence, Université catholique de Louvain)
7. Attentional progress by conceptual engineering (Eve Kitsik, University of Cologne)
8. The philosophy of logical practice (Ben Martin, University of Bergen)
9. One philosopher’s modus ponens is another’s modus tollens: Pantomemes and nisowir (Jon Williamson, University of Kent)
10. Linking perspectives: A role for poetry in philosophical inquiry (Karen Simecek, University of Warwick)
Part 3: Doing philosophy
11. Grounding interventionism: Conceptual and epistemological challenges (Amanda Bryant, Toronto Metropolitan University)
12. Impossible worlds and the safety of philosophical beliefs (Zack Garrett, Excelsior Classical Academy, and Zachariah Wrublewski, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Index