What is philosophical progress?
What is it for philosophy to make progress? While various putative forms of philosophical progress have been explored in some depth, this overarching question is rarely addressed explicitly, perhaps because it has been assumed to be intractable or unlikely to have a single, unified answer. In this p...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 109; no. 2; pp. 663 - 694 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2024
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