Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds

Edouard Machery is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University). He has been the editor of the Naturalistic Philosophy section of Philosophy Compass since 2012 and was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award (junior category) by the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2013, the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, a Humboldt Research Award in 2017, a Mercator Fellowship in 2017 and the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award (senior category) by the University of Pittsburgh in 2018. He also sits on the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association (2017-2020).

The book is bold, provocative, engaging, ambitious and well written.

• Introduction 1: The method of cases 2: The empirical findings 3: Unreliability 4: Dogmatism and parochialism 5: Eight defenses of the method of cases: amateur psychology, reflection, expertise, limited influence, fallibility, reform, mischaracterization, and overgeneralization 6: Modal ignorance and the limits of philosophy 7: Conceptual analysis rebooted Postscript