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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. Starting from Common Sense
Common Sense in Philosophy
What Is Common Sense?
Common-Sense Questions, Philosophical Questions
Common Sense as a Check on Philosophy
Fallibility about Evidence
The Reliability of Common Sense
3. Disputing
Two Sides of an Argument
Adversarial Philosophy
Logic Games
Dialogues
4. Clarifying Terms
It Depends on What You Mean
Concepts and Conceptions
Clarifying and Theorizing
5. Doing Thought Experiments
Use Your Imagination
Thought Experiments and Real-Life Experiments
Knowing by Imagining
Intuition?
Biases
6. Comparing Theories
Theories of Everything
Testing Theories by Thought Experiment
Rival Theories
Inference to the Best Explanation
7. Deducing
Deduction in Philosophy and Elsewhere
Validity and Soundness
Abduction in Logic and Mathematics
Non-Neutral Logic
Logic and Philosophy
8. Using the History of Philosophy
Is Philosophy History?
Monuments and Influence
Can the History of Philosophy Help Solve Philosophical Problems?
9. Using Other Fields
History
Social Anthropology
Linguistics
Psychology
Economics
Computer Science
Biology
Physics
Mathematics
10. Model-Building
Models in Science
Models in Philosophy
Extensional Semantics
Intensional Semantics
Working Models, Counterexamples, and Error-Fragility
11. Conclusion: The Future of Philosophy
References and Further Reading
Index
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