1st Edition

What Is Philosophy? A First-Person Perspective

By Richard Fumerton Copyright 2023
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

As philosophy departments attempt to define their unique value amid program closures in the humanities and the rise of interdisciplinary research, metaphilosophy has become an increasingly important area of inquiry. Richard Fumerton here lays out a cogent answer to the question asked in the book’s title, What Is Philosophy? . Against those who argue that philosophy is not sharply distinguishable... Read more

Part I: How to Approach Metaphilosophy

1. Introduction

2. The Paradox of Analysis and Methodological Solipsism

3. What’s Left?

Part II: Ilustrating the View—Mapping Clear Borders

4. Philosophy of Language

5. Epistemology and Metaepistemology

6. Ethics and Rationality/Metaethics and Meta-rationality

7. Philosophy of Mind

8. Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics

9. The Relevance of Philosophy Proper

Biography

Richard Fumerton is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. He is the author of, among other books, Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002), Epistemology (2006), Mill (co-authored with Wendy Donner) (2009), Knowledge, Thought and the Case for Dualism (2013), and A Consequentialist Defense of Libertarianism (2021). With Diane Jeske, he has also edited Philosophy Through Film (2009), and An Introduction to Political Philosophy (2012).