Examining Philosophy Itself

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction: The Unexamined Philosophy Is Not Worth

Doing 1

YAFENG SHAN

Part 1: Defending Philosophy 9

1 Metametaphysics and Semantics 11

TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON

2 Philosophy Doesn’t Need a Concept of Progress 29

YAFENG SHAN

3 T-Philosophy 43

CHRIS DALY

Part 2: How to Do Philosophy 61

4 On the Continuity of Metaphysics with Science: Some

Scepticism and Some Suggestions 63

JACK RITCHIE

5 In Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy 89

HERMAN CAPPELEN AND MATTHEW MCKEEVER

6 Testing and Discovery: Responding to Challenges to Digital

Philosophy of Science 111

CHARLES H. PENCE

7 Attentional Progress by Conceptual Engineering 133

EVE KITSIK

8 The Philosophy of Logical Practice 151

BEN MARTIN

9 One Philosopher’s Modus Ponens Is Another’s Modus Tollens:

Pantomemes and Nisowir 175

JON WILLIAMSON

10 Linking Perspectives: A Role for Poetry in Philosophical

Inquiry 203

KAREN SIMECEK

Part 3: Doing Philosophy 221

11 Grounding Interventionism: Conceptual and Epistemological

Challenges 223

AMANDA BRYANT

12 Impossible Worlds and the Safety of Philosophical Beliefs 253

ZACK GARRETT AND ZACHARIAH WRUBLEWSKI

Index 277

YAFENG SHAN is a research fellow in epistemology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. at University College London. His main interests are philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy. He is the author of Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (2020) and the editor of New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (2022). He has also published research articles in such journals as Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, and Philosophy Compass.