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Philosophical Progress - In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism (Paperback)
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Philosophical Progress - In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism (Paperback)
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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. Daniel Stoljar arguesargues 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. 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.
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