On evidence in philosophy / William G. Lycan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lycan, William G., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958.

Moore, G. E.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 149 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

William G. Lycan offers an epistemology of philosophy itself, a partial method for philosophical inquiry. In sum, he advocates a picture of philosophy as a very wide explanatory reflective equilibrium incorporating common sense, science, and our firmest intuitions on any topic.

Contents:

Introduction

1: A Version of Moore's Method

The Successful Argument

Applications

Virtues of this Version

One of Moore's Own Reservations

Appendix on the Very Strong Position

2: Moore against the New Skeptics

The Skeptics and their Charges

A Reminder, and the Second of Moore's Own Reservations

Depth and Being Philosophical

What are "Common-Sense" Propositions?

Taking Epistemological Stock

3: A Novel Refutation of Eliminative Materialism

Arguments Pro

Arguments Con

My Refutation

Empirical Evidence for Entailment?

Have We Proved Too Much?

4: Free Will and the Burden of Proof

My Position

The Nature of Compatibility

More Broadly Logical Incompatibility?

Vs. (3)

Vs. (4)

My Argument against Metaphysical Incompatibilism

A Dialectical Issue

The "Consequence Argument"

5: The Poverty of Philosophical Method: A Case Study

Another Weakness of Deduction

Dualism and Materialism

Arguments for Materialism

Objections to Cartesian Dualism

The Interaction Problem

Objections (2)-(4)

Churchland's Added Objections

6: Philosophical Knowledge

Successes?

Being Skeptical

Gutting's Candidates

Progress

7: The Evidential Status of Intuitions

What is an "Intuition"?

Intuitions as Evidence

Anti-intuitionism

Intuitions and Reliability

Intuitions and Reflective Equilibrium

Metaphysical Note

8: Intuitions and Coherentism

The Data Base

Stich's Complaint(s)

Reflective Equilibrium as Explanatory Coherence

A Quick Look Back at Skepticism

Appendix on the External World

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 6, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-256526-5

0-19-186822-1

0-19-256525-7

OCLC:

1084381532