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Auteur(s) : Machery, Édouard
Titre(s) : Philosophy within its proper bounds [Texte imprimé] / Edouard Machery
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-272 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 247-267. Index
Edouard Machery argues that resolving many traditional and contemporary philosophical
issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that philosophy should re-orient itself toward
more humble, but ultimately more important intellectual endeavours. Any resolution
to many of these contemporary issues would require an epistemic access to metaphysical
possibilities and necessities, which, Machery argues, we do not have. In effect, then,
this work defends a form of modal skepticism. It assesses the main philosophical method
for acquiring the modal knowledge that the resolution of modally immodest philosophical
issues turns on: the method of cases, that is, the consideration of actual or hypothetical
situations (which cases or thought experiments describe) in order to determine what
facts hold in these situations
Sujet(s) : Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
100 (23e éd.) = Philosophie, parapsychologie et occultisme, psychologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198825889. - ISBN 9780198825883 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45679206f
Notice n° :
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Table des matières : Introduction ; The Method of Cases ; The Empirical Findings ; Fooled by Cognitive
Artifacts ; Enshrining Our Prejudices ; Eight Defenses of the Method of Cases: Amateur
Psychology, Reflection, Expertise, Limited Influence, Fallibility, Reform, Mischaracterization,
and Overgeneralization ; Modal Ignorance and the Limits of Philosophy ; Conceptual
Analysis Rebooted ; Postscript.