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The Philosophy of Philosophy

Out of Print
By: Timothy Williamson(Author)
332 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
The Philosophy of Philosophy
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  • The Philosophy of Philosophy ISBN: 9781405133968 Paperback Nov 2007 Out of Print #224097
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About this book

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, The Philosophy of Philosophy offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Linguistic Turn and the Conceptual Turn
2. Taking Philosophical Questions at Face Value
3. Metaphysical Conceptions of Analyticity
4. Epistemological Conceptions of Analyticity
5. Knowledge of Metaphysical Modality
6. Thought Experiments
7. Evidence in Philosophy
8. Knowledge Maximization

Afterword. Must Do Better
Appendix 1. Modal Logic within Counterfactual Logic
Appendix 2. Counterfactual Donkeys
Bibliography
Index

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Biography

Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts. Williamson is the author of Identity and Discrimination (1990), Vagueness (1996), Knowledge and its Limits (2000) and numerous articles on logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Out of Print
By: Timothy Williamson(Author)
332 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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"Worthwhile reading [...] for anyone reckoning him or herself to be part of the analytic tradition. Superb in coming to grips with one's methodological self-understanding."
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