Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Stoljar, Daniel (1967-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Philosophical progress [Texte imprimé] : in defence of a reasonable optimism / Daniel Stoljar

Publication : Oxford : Oxford University press, 2017

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi-186 p.) ; 23 cm

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 169-179. Index
"Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either as a scholarly or interpretative enterprise, or else as a sort of pre-scientific speculation. And - amazingly - many well-known philosophers argue that there is little genuine progress in philosophy. 0Daniel Stoljar argues that this is all a big mistake. When you think through exactly what philosophical problems are, and what it takes to solve them, the pattern of success and failure in philosophy is similar to that in other fields. In philosophy, as elsewhere, there is a series of overlapping topics that determine what the subject is about. In philosophy, as elsewhere, different people in different historical epochs and different cultures ask different big questions about these topics. And in philosophy, as elsewhere, big questions asked in the past have often been solved: Stoljar provides examples.0'Philosophical Progress' presents a strikingly optimistic picture of philosophy - not a radical optimism that says that there is some key that unlocks all philosophical problems, and not the kind of pessimism that dominates both professional and non-professional thinking about philosophy, but a reasonable optimism that views philosophy as akin to other fields."--Back cover

Sujet(s) : Philosophie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Épistémologie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Optimisme  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198802099. - ISBN 0198802099

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb452258788

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