The Philosophy of Philosophy -

Timothy Williamson

Wiley-Blackwell

2008

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-13: 9781405133975

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.

• Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson;
• Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy;
• Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking;
• Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing.