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Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, EPUB eBook

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In Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, Edouard Machery argues that resolving many traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that philosophy should re-orient itself toward more humble, but ultimately more important intellectual endeavors.

Any resolution to many of these contemporary issues would require an epistemic access to metaphysical possibilities and necessities, which, Machery argues, we do not have.

Ineffect, then, Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds defends a form of modal skepticism.

The book assesses the main philosophical method for acquiring the modal knowledge that the resolution of modally immodest philosophical issues turns on: the method of cases, that is, the consideration of actual or hypotheticalsituations (which cases or thought experiments describe) in order to determine what facts hold in these situations.

Canvassing the extensive work done by experimental philosophers over the last 15 years, Edouard Machery shows that the method of cases is unreliable and should be rejected.

Importantly, the dismissal of modally immodest philosophical issues is no cause for despair - many important philosophical issues remain within our epistemic reach.

In particular, reorienting the course ofphilosophy would free time and resources for bringing back to prominence a once-central intellectual endeavor: conceptual analysis.

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