The rediscovery of common sense philosophy [electronic resource] / Stephen Boulter.

How should one go about conducting the business of philosophy? And what should we make of the paradoxical conclusions defended by the great and the good of the discipline? In this book it is argued that, contrary to common practice, philosophical paradoxes and counter-intuitive theses ought to be ta...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Boulter, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Two Tribes
  • The Metaphilosophy of Common Sense
  • 'Evolutionary Argument' and the Metaphilosophy of Common Sense
  • Towards a Taxonomy of Philosophical Error
  • Theology's Trojan Horse
  • Metaphysical Realism as a Pre-condition of Visual Perception
  • Semantic Anti-Realism and the Dummettian Reductio
  • Eliminating Eliminative Materialism
  • Freedom and Responsibility
  • On the Existence of Moral Facts.