Beschreibung
Philosophys Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution.
Offers the most up-to-date treatment of the intellectual and cultural value of contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectivesFeatures contributions from distinguished philosophers such as Frank Jackson, Karen Green, Timothy Williamson, Jessica Wilson, and many othersExplores the ways philosophical investigations of logic, world, mind, and moral responsibility continue to shape the empirical and theoretical sciencesConsiders the role of contemporary philosophy in political issues such as womens rights, the discrimination of minorities, and public health
Autorenportrait
RUSSELL BLACKFORD is an Australian philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His many books includeFreedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley Blackwell, 2012),The Mystery of Moral Authority (2016) andThe Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (2019).
DAMIEN BRODERICK is an award-winning Australian science and fiction writer, editor, and critical theorist, and a former Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is the author or editor of some 74 books including, as co-editor with Russell Blackford,Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).
Inhalt
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction I: Philosophy and the Perils of Progress 1Russell Blackford
Introduction II: Philosophy on the Inclined Plane 13Damien Broderick
Part 1 Roads to Progress in Philosophy 19
1 Coming Out of the Shade 21Myisha Cherry
2 What has Philosophy Ever Done for Us? 31James Ladyman
3 Progress and Philosophy 41Noretta Koertge
4 Only Connect 51Frank Jackson
Part 2 Bumps in the Road, Rabbits in the Landscape 61
5 Chmess, Abiding Significance, and Rabbit Holes 63Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay
6 Philosophy as the Evocation of Conceptual Landscapes 75Massimo Pigliucci
7 Three Barriers to Philosophical Progress 91Jessica Wilson
Part 3 Cautious Optimism 105
8 Is there Progress in Philosophy? A Brief Case for Optimism 107Daniel Stoljar
9 Is Philosophy Progressing Fast Enough? 119Stuart Brock
10 Does Philosophical Progress Matter? 133Richard Kamber
Part 4 Philosophy and Science 145
11 Between Gods and Apes: On the Lack of Scientific and Philosophical Progress 147Mark Walker
12 Model?]Building in Philosophy 159Timothy Williamson
13 Progress in Philosophy and in the Physical Sciences: How Far Does The Analogy Hold? 173Christopher Norris
Part 5 Re-Imagining the Conversation 191
14 Philosophy as Intellectual War of Values 193Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
15 Re?]Imagining the Philosophical Conversation 201Karen Green
16 David Lewis and the Kangaroo: Graphing Philosophical Progress 213Benj Hellie
17 Philosophy, Progress, and Identity 227Ward E. Jones
Index 241
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