Daniel Stoljar

Philosophical Progress

In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism

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Produktbeschreibung

Daniel Stoljar presents a persuasive rejection of the widespread view that philosophy makes no progress. He defends a reasonable optimism about philosophical progress, showing that we have correctly answered philosophical questions in the past and may expect to do so in the future. He offers a credible vision of how philosophy works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9780198849773
• ISBN-10: 019884977X
• Artikelnr.: 57149170

Autorenporträt

Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University in Canberra, a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the current President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. He is the author of Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness (OUP 2006) and Physicalism (Routledge 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Matters Arising
3: An Argument for Optimism
4: The Argument Defended
5: Extending the Argument
6: The Extension Defended
7: Two Arguments from Disagreement
8: Six Further Arguments
Conclusion