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Philosophical Progress - In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Progress - In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism (Hardcover)
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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 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. 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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