Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Notes on Contributors
4. Introduction I: Philosophy and the Perils of Progress
   1. An Embarrassment for Philosophy?
   2. The problem(s) of philosophical progress
   3. Philosophers write back
   4. What should we expect (from philosophy)?
   5. The future for philosophy?
   6. References
5. Introduction II: Philosophy on the Inclined Plane
   1. References
6. Part 1: Roads to Progress in Philosophy
   1. 1 Coming Out of the Shade
      1. Accessibility in Form and Medium
      2. A Note on “Public” Philosophy
      3. Engaging with Other Disciplines
      4. Suspicion and Fear of the Public
      5. References
   2. 2 What has Philosophy Ever Done for Us?
      1. References
   3. 3 Progress and Philosophy
      1. Introduction
      2. Philosophy as an Analytical Tool
      3. Philosophy and Progress in the Sciences
      4. Progress in Philosophical Accounts of Scientific Method
      5. Philosophy and Research Ethics
      6. Research Ethics as a New Discipline
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
   4. 4 Only Connect
      1. Preamble
      2. Conditionals and a Principle about Evidence
      3. Perceptual Content and Two‐Dimensionalism
      4. Information and Proper Names
      5. Afterword
      6. References
7. Part 2: Bumps in the Road, Rabbits in the Landscape
   1. 5 Chmess, Abiding Significance, and Rabbit Holes
      1. Introduction
      2. Chmess
      3. Dennett’s point
      4. Metaphysics and models
      5. Axioms, mathematics, and progress
      6. Conclusion
      7. References
   2. 6 Philosophy as the Evocation of Conceptual Landscapes
      1. Preamble: The Nature of Progress
      2. Evoking Truths about Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy
      3. The Business of Philosophy, and its Limits
      4. Philosophy Studies the (Evoked) Structure of Aporetic Clusters
      5. Empirical Examples of Aporetic Clusters in Philosophy
      6. The Evolution of Philosophy
      7. References
   3. 7 Three Barriers to Philosophical Progress
      1. Introduction
      2. The Absence of Fixed Standards in Philosophy
      3. Barrier #1: Intra‐Disciplinary Siloing
      4. Barrier #2: Sociological determinants
      5. Barrier #3: Bias
      6. Moving Beyond the Barriers
      7. References
8. Part 3: Cautious Optimism
   1. 8 Is there Progress in Philosophy? A Brief Case for Optimism
      1. Introduction
      2. Exhibit A
      3. Exhibit B
      4. Patterns
      5. Successors
      6. Negativity
      7. Explanation
      8. Conclusion
      9. References
   2. 9 Is Philosophy Progressing Fast Enough?
      1. Philosophy’s Self‐Conception
      2. The Case for Pessimism
      3. The Case for Optimism
      4. References
   3. 10 Does Philosophical Progress Matter?
      1. Philosophy’s Progress
      2. The Intractability of Philosophical Disagreement
      3. The Promise of Experimental Philosophy
      4. References
9. Part 4: Philosophy and Science
   1. 11 Between Gods and Apes
      1. The Truth
      2. The Truth as a Bookie: The Horse Race
      3. Philosophical Disagreement as Hubris
      4. Scientific Agreement as Groupthink
      5. Philosophy and Noetic Skepticism
      6. Science and Noetic Skepticism: The Bigger Problem
      7. Testing Noetic Skepticism
      8. Philosophical and Scientific Progress
      9. References
   2. 12 Model‐Building in Philosophy
      1. What are Models?
      2. Models in Philosophy
      3. Methodological Reflections
      4. Conclusion
      5. References
   3. 13 Progress in Philosophy and in the Physical Sciences
      1. “Problems with Progress”: Some Sources of Doubt
      2. Relativism and Realism: Carts before Horses?
      3. Progress in Science: An Apt Analogy?
      4. Reason, Progress, and the Uses of Error
      5. References
10. Part 5: Re‐Imagining the Conversation
    1. 14 Philosophy as “Intellectual War of Values”
       1. References
    2. 15 Re‐Imagining the Philosophical Conversation
       1. References
    3. 16 David Lewis and the Kangaroo
       1. Introduction
       2. Graphing Lewis: Coarse Structure
       3. Rise and Fall of the Black Box Mind
       4. A Prolonged Campaign in Hindsight
       5. References
    4. 17 Philosophy, Progress, and Identity
       1. A Conception of Philosophy
       2. Dissensus in Philosophy
       3. Philosophical Commitment as Identity‐Conferring
       4. Progress in Philosophy
       5. Conclusion
       6. References
11. Index
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