Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism

by Daniel Stoljar

Book Overview

Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either as a scholarly or interpretative enterprise, or else as a sort of pre-scientific speculation. And - amazingly - many well-known philosophers argue that there is little genuine progress in philosophy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198802099
• ISBN13: 9780198802099
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"