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Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds (Hardcover)
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Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds (Hardcover)
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In Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, 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 endeavors. 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, Philosophy Within Its Proper
Bounds defends a form of modal skepticism. The book 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. Canvassing the extensive work done by experimental
philosophers over the last 15 years, Edouard Machery shows that the
method of cases is unreliable and should be rejected. Importantly,
the dismissal of modally immodest philosophical issues is no cause
for despair - many important philosophical issues remain within our
epistemic reach. In particular, reorienting the course of
philosophy would free time and resources for bringing back to
prominence a once-central intellectual endeavor: conceptual
analysis.
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