Philosophical Progress by Daniel Stoljar, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Philosophical Progress by Daniel Stoljar, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Philosophical Progress by Daniel Stoljar, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either as a scholarly or interpretativeenterprise, or else as a sort of pre-scientific speculation. And - amazingly - many well-known philosophers argue that there is little genuine progress in philosophy. Daniel Stoljar argues that this is all a big mistake. When you think through exactly what philosophical problems are, and what it takes to solve them, the pattern of success and failure in philosophy is similar to that in other fields. In philosophy, as elsewhere, there is a series of overlappingtopics that determine what the subject is about. In philosophy, as elsewhere, different people in different historical epochs and different cultures ask different big questions about these topics. And in philosophy, as elsewhere, big questions asked in the past have often been solved: Stoljarprovides examples. Philosophical Progress presents a strikingly optimistic picture of philosophy - not a radical optimism that says that there is some key that unlocks all philosophical problems, and not the kind of pessimism that dominates both professional and non-professional thinking about philosophy, but areasonable optimism that views philosophy as akin to other fields. | Philosophical Progress by Daniel Stoljar, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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