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Philosophy within its proper bounds / Edouard Machery

Publisher	(Oxford : Oxford University Press)
Year	2017
Edition	First edition.
Authors	*Machery, Edouard author

Links to the text	Location	Volume	Call No.	Barcode No.	Status	Comments	ISBN	Printed	Restriction	Reserve
Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00126133		Oxford Scholarship Online (電子ブック)	9780191845444

Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Notes	This edition previously issued in print: 2017 Includes bibliographical references and index Edouard Machery argues that resolving many traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that philosophy should re-orient itself toward more humble, but ultimately more important intellectual endeavours. Any resolution to many of these contemporary issues would require an epistemic access to metaphysical possibilities and necessities, which, Machery argues, we do not have. In effect, then, this work defends a form of modal skepticism. It assesses the main philosophical method for acquiring the modal knowledge that the resolution of modally immodest philosophical issues turns on: the method of cases, that is, the consideration of actual or hypothetical situations (which cases or thought experiments describe) in order to determine what facts hold in these situations Specialized Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2017) HTTP:URL=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807520.001.0001 Information=Oxford scholarship online
Subjects	LCSH:Philosophy, Modern LCSH:Skepticism LCSH:Concepts
Classification	LCC:B805 DC23:190
ID	8000076035
ISBN	9780191845444