Ideas from 'The Philosophy of Philosophy' by Timothy Williamson [2007], by Theme Structure
[found in 'The Philosophy of Philosophy' by Williamson,Timothy [Blackwell 2007,978-1-4051-3396-8]].
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
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Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
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Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
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Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
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Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
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Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe]
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We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
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Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence
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When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
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If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar
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