Examining Philosophy Itself

YAFENG SHAN is a research fellow in epistemology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. at University College London. His main interests are philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy. He is the author of Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020) and the editor of New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (2022). He has also published research articles in such journals as Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, and Philosophy Compass.

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction: The Unexamined Philosophy Is Not Worth Doing 1Yafeng ShanPart 1: Defending Philosophy 91 Metametaphysics and Semantics 11Timothy Williamson2 Philosophy Doesn’t Need a Concept of Progress 29Yafeng Shan3 T-Philosophy 43Chris DalyPart 2: How to Do Philosophy 614 On the Continuity of Metaphysics with Science: Some Scepticism and Some Suggestions 63Jack Ritchie5 In Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy 89Herman Cappelen and Matthew Mckeever6 Testing and Discovery: Responding to Challenges to Digital Philosophy of Science 111Charles H. Pence7 Attentional Progress by Conceptual Engineering 133Eve Kitsik8 The Philosophy of Logical Practice 151Ben Martin9 One Philosopher’s Modus Ponens Is Another’s Modus Tollens: Pantomemes and Nisowir 175Jon Williamson10 Linking Perspectives: A Role for Poetry in Philosophical Inquiry 203Karen SimecekPart 3: Doing Philosophy 22111 Grounding Interventionism: Conceptual and Epistemological Challenges 223Amanda Bryant12 Impossible Worlds and the Safety of Philosophical Beliefs 253Zack Garrett and Zachariah WrublewskiIndex 277