This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...
This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when bold, uninformative when cautious. Less prominent alternatives too seemed implausible or ill-
developed. Although an adequate self-image is not a recondition of all virtue, it helps. If philosophy misconceives what it is doing, it is likely to do it worse. In any case, an adequate self-image is worth having for its own sake; we are not supposed to be leading the unexamined life. This is my attempt to do better.
Historians of philosophy on the grand scale may be too Whiggish or Hegelian to regard the linguistic or conceptual turn as merely a false turning from which philosophy is withdrawing now that it recognizes its mistake. We are supposed to go forward from it, not back. At the very least, we should learn from our mistakes, if only not to repeat them. But if the conceptual turn was a mistake, it was not a simple blunder; it went too deep for that. A new narrative structure is needed for the history of philosophy since 1960; it is clear only in the roughest outline what it should be. (查看原文)
Tim Williamson此人 完全embody了analytic philosophy中我避之不及的东西 四处扣’lack of rigour’的帽子 把Wittgensteinian当作骂人的标签贴 而且 而且 怎么会有人觉得being a heap is a real property with exact boundaries, only that we can’t know it… i...Tim Williamson此人 完全embody了analytic philosophy中我避之不及的东西 四处扣’lack of rigour’的帽子 把Wittgensteinian当作骂人的标签贴 而且 而且 怎么会有人觉得being a heap is a real property with exact boundaries, only that we can’t know it… if this isn’t philosophy going astray I don’t know what is…(展开)
好吧，这一章的难度，我跪了...为什么课上讨论的时候同学们看起来都那么得轻松... 笔记请各位take it with a grain of salt ...@@ --- 继续反对linguistic/conceptual turn，这个turn认为探索conceptual truth是哲学的核心主题。 Conceptual truth往往和analytical truth交换使...
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Williamson在本章以the problem of vagueness作为一个例子，分析了哲学家在做哲学的时候，虽然他们讨论的问题并不是关于thought或者语言，但是他们的讨论方式却是关于thought或者语言（所以他们的讨论方式符合他们的目标吗？这会让他们miss the target吗？Williamson说不会。为...
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3 有用 苦恶鸟 2014-05-17 09:25:17
最后的丘吉尔quote可鼻酸
2 有用 立在青左 2020-11-15 08:03:44
因为论文需要，读了analyticity的那两章，epistemic analyticity那章尤为长。真难读，真扎实。
1 有用 申不变 2023-11-23 06:02:11 奥地利
Tim Williamson此人 完全embody了analytic philosophy中我避之不及的东西 四处扣’lack of rigour’的帽子 把Wittgensteinian当作骂人的标签贴 而且 而且 怎么会有人觉得being a heap is a real property with exact boundaries, only that we can’t know it… i... Tim Williamson此人 完全embody了analytic philosophy中我避之不及的东西 四处扣’lack of rigour’的帽子 把Wittgensteinian当作骂人的标签贴 而且 而且 怎么会有人觉得being a heap is a real property with exact boundaries, only that we can’t know it… if this isn’t philosophy going astray I don’t know what is… (展开)
1 有用 [已注销] 2018-03-09 22:59:03
难。
0 有用 吕柘 2024-05-20 23:06:03 四川
只看了前五章。第三章第四章的批评很深刻, 也不愧和P.Boghossian到现在吵了这么多年。