The Great Endarkenment : Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization.
Millgram, Elijah.
The Great Endarkenment : Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introductory Remarks on the Tower of Babel -- 2 The Great Endarkenment -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- 3 Practical Reasoning for Serial Hyperspecializers -- 4 D'où venons-nous … Que sommes nous … Où allons-nous? -- 5 Millian Metaethics -- 6 Why Do We Think There Are Things We Ought to Do? -- 7 Lewis's Epicycles, Possible Worlds, and the Mysteries of Modality -- 8 Progressive Necessity -- 9 Applied Ethics, Moral Skepticism, and Reasons with Expiration Dates -- 10 Segmented Agency -- Postscript -- 11 Afterword: A Call to Arms -- Bibliography -- Index.
Philosophers have not appreciated how pervasive and deep division of labor is, and consequently they have not noticed the many intellectual devices deployed in managing it. The Great Endarkenment makes the case that those devices are central pieces of puzzles that have traditionally been on philosophers' agendas.
9780199326037
Philosophy, Modern--21st century--Methodology.
Electronic books.
B805.M55 2015
191
The Great Endarkenment : Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introductory Remarks on the Tower of Babel -- 2 The Great Endarkenment -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- 3 Practical Reasoning for Serial Hyperspecializers -- 4 D'où venons-nous … Que sommes nous … Où allons-nous? -- 5 Millian Metaethics -- 6 Why Do We Think There Are Things We Ought to Do? -- 7 Lewis's Epicycles, Possible Worlds, and the Mysteries of Modality -- 8 Progressive Necessity -- 9 Applied Ethics, Moral Skepticism, and Reasons with Expiration Dates -- 10 Segmented Agency -- Postscript -- 11 Afterword: A Call to Arms -- Bibliography -- Index.
Philosophers have not appreciated how pervasive and deep division of labor is, and consequently they have not noticed the many intellectual devices deployed in managing it. The Great Endarkenment makes the case that those devices are central pieces of puzzles that have traditionally been on philosophers' agendas.
9780199326037
Philosophy, Modern--21st century--Methodology.
Electronic books.
B805.M55 2015
191