What philosophers know : case studies in recent analytic philosophy / Gary Gutting.

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Gutting, Gary

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511719561
0511719566
9780511841156
0511841159
9780511515651
0511515650
9780511516931
0511516932

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: What philosophers know.DDC classification:

146/.4 22

LOC classification:

B808.5 .G88 2009

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08.03
CI 1150
5,1

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Contents:

Part I : 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 -- Part II : arguments and convictions -- Turning the tables : Plantinga and the rise of 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 -- Part III : philosophical truth and knowledge -- Rorty against the world : philosophy, truth, and objectivity -- Philosophical knowledge : conclusions and an application.

Summary: 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 advances in the field.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.

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 advances in the field.

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