What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy

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Author: Gary Gutting

ISBN-10: 0521672228

ISBN-13: 9780521672221

Category: Philosophical Positions & Movements

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Drawing upon the work of Quine, Rawls, Rorty and others, Gutting challenges the standard view about what philosophers have achieved.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Part I How Does That Go? The Limits of Philosophical Argument1 Quine's "Two Dogmas": argument or imagination? 112 Argument and intuition in Kripke's Naming and Necessity 313 The rise and fall of counterexamples: Gettier, Goldman, and Lewis 514 Reflection: pictures, intuitions, and philosophical knowledge 73Part II Arguments And Convictions5 Turning the tables: Plantinga and the rise of philosophy of religion 1056 Materialism and compatibilism: two dogmas of analytic philosophy? 1227 Was there a Kuhnian revolution? Convictions in the philosophy of science 1518 Conviction and argument in Rawls' A Theory of Justice 173Part III Philosophical Truth And Knowledge9 Rorty against the world: philosophy, truth, and objectivity 19710 Philosophical knowledge: conclusions and an application 224References 243Index 248