The Epistemic Consequences of Paradox

ISBN-13: 9781009055963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

FRANCES BRYAN

Opis

Analyzing paradoxes proves interesting results regarding philosophical progress, agreement, knockdown arguments, belief, the status of metaphysics, and common sense.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Our Six Topics; 3. How To Analyze A Philosophical Problem: The Sorites; 4. Each Disjunct Is Philosophically Counterintuitive; 5. A Doxastically Distressing Disjunction: The Sorites; 6. How Semantic Complexity Does And Does Not Matter; 7. A Doxastically Distressing Disjunction: The Liar; 8. A Doxastically Distressing Disjunction: The Problem Of The Many; 9. Knockdown Arguments And Philosophical Agreement; 10. Metaphysical Bullshit; 11. Philosophical Progress And Philosophical Refutations Of Common Sense; 12. The Philosophical Significance Of Philosophical Counterintuitiveness; 13. The Three Doxastic Responses To The Doxastically Distressing Disjunctions; 14. The Inconsistency Response; 15. The Confident Response; 16. The Cautious Response; References.