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 achievements by analytic
philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Gettier, Lewis, Chalmers,
Plantinga, Kuhn, Rawls, and Rorty. He shows that these philosophers
have indeed produced a substantial body of disciplinary knowledge,
but he challenges many common views about what philosophers have
achieved. Topics discussed include the role of argument in
philosophy, naturalist and experimentalist challenges to the status
of philosophical intuitions, the importance of pre-philosophical
convictions, Rawls' method of reflective equilibrium, and Rorty's
challenge to the idea of objective philosophical truth. The book
offers a lucid survey of recent analytic work and presents a new
understanding of philosophy as an important source of knowledge.
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