Philosophy of Philosophy

Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University and Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor at Yale University. He was previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University, and has been Visiting Professor at MIT, Princeton University, University of Michigan, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His books include Identity and Discrimination, Vagueness, Doing Philosophy, Knowledge and its Limits, Modal Logic as Metaphysics, and Suppose and Tell.

• Preface to the Second Edition xiPreface to the First Edition xxxAcknowledgments xxxiiiPart I 1Introduction 31 The Linguistic Turn and the Conceptual Turn 122 Taking Philosophical Questions at Face Value 253 Metaphysical Conceptions of Analyticity 504 Epistemological Conceptions of Analyticity 755 Knowledge of Metaphysical Modality 1366 Thought Experiments 1817 Evidence in Philosophy 2108 Knowledge Maximization 249Afterword Must Do Better 280Appendix 1 Modal Logic within Counterfactual Logic 295Appendix 2 Counterfactual Donkeys 307Part II 3119 Widening the Picture 3139.1 How Did We Get Here from There? The Transformation of Analytic Philosophy 3139.2 Abductive Philosophy 3519.3 Model-Building in Philosophy 3729.4 Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy 3869.5 Reply to Dennett and Kuznetsov on Abductive Philosophy 4019.6 Reply to Kuznetsov and Stoljar on Model-Building in Philosophy 40410 Experimental Philosophy 40610.1 Reply to Weinberg 40610.2 Philosophical Expertise and the Burden of Proof 41310.3 On Joshua Alexander’s Experimental Philosophy: An Introduction 43110.4 Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy 44010.5 Reply to Dennett, Knobe, and Kuznetsov on “Philosophical Intuitions” 46411 Naturalism 46711.1 Reply to Kornblith 46711.2 Reply to Stalnaker 47111.3 Reply to Bianchi 48111.4 What is Naturalism? 48411.5 The Unclarity of Naturalism 48811.6 On Penelope Maddy’s What Do Philosophers Do? Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy 49112 Concepts, Understanding, Analyticity 49712.1 Reply to Jackson 49712.2 Reply to Boghossian 50212.3 Reply to Peacocke 51212.4 Reply to Mišc¡evic´ 52012.5 Reply to Smokrovic´ 52912.6 Reply to Trobok 53313 Wittgensteinian Approaches 53813.1 Reply to Moore 53813.2 Reply to Horwich 54313.3 Reply to Frascolla 55313.4 Reply to Marconi 55613.5 Reply to Tripodi 56013.6 On Paul Horwich’s Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy 56314 Miscellany 56914.1 Reply to Ichikawa 56914.2 Reply to Martin 57514.3 On Robert Brandom’s Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas 57914.4 On Peter Unger’s Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy 58614.5 Plato Goes Pop 59114.6 Popular Philosophy and Populist Philosophy 595Bibliography 598Index 619