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• An Introduction to Metaphilosophy
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• Does the question matter?
• The aims of the book
• Outline of the rest of the book
• 2 What is philosophy?
• Introduction
• What is (really existing) philosophy?
• A continuum between two extremes
• Philosophy as part of science
• Philosophy as immature science
• Philosophy as ‘midwife’ and ‘residue’ of the sciences
• Platonism
• Philosophy as the logic of science
• Philosophy as a contribution to human understanding
• Philosophy as transcendental inquiry
• World views
• Philosophy as ‘edifying conversation’
• Conclusion
• 3 Philosophy, science and the humanities
• Introduction
• Science: a tough act to follow
• Progress in philosophy?
• Aristotle goes to college: a thought experiment
• Naturalism
• Quine and Wittgenstein
• The scientific image versus the manifest image
• Philosophy and the humanities
• Conclusion
• 4 The data of philosophical arguments
• Introduction
• Phenomenology
• Armchair phenomenology
• The ‘first-person plural assumption’
• Phenomenological disputes
• Conceptual analysis
• Appealing to intuitions
• Experimental philosophy
• Intuition scepticism
• Sceptical rejoinders
• Concepts, conceptions and phenomena
• Conclusion
• 5 Analytic and continental philosophy
• Introduction
• The labels and their extensions
• The usual suspects
• The role of Heidegger
• Topics
• Doctrines
• Methods
• Style
• Revisionism and scepticism
• Trails of influence and family resemblances
• Is philosophy one subject?
• Conclusion
• 6 Philosophy and the pursuit of truth
• Introduction
• Metaphors and the contingency of language
• Historicism
• Philosophy as poetry
• The possibility of criticism
• Systematicity in philosophy
• Conclusion
• 7 What is good philosophy?
• Introduction: a question of standards
• Philosophers and Sophists
• Philosophical style
• Philosophical rigour
• Philosophical virtues
• Reflectiveness
• Seriousness
• Conclusion
• 8 What good is philosophy?
• Introduction
• Challenges to philosophy
• The products of philosophy
• Uses of analysis
• World views
• Types of world view
• Philosophy and values
• Moral improvement?
• Applied philosophy
• Ethical experts?
• The practice of philosophy
• Philosophy as therapy
• Conclusion
• References
• Index