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Examining Philosophy Itself METAPHILOSOPHYSERIESINPHILOSOPHY SeriesEditorsArmenT.MarsoobianandEricCavallero The Philosophy of Interpretation, edited by Joseph Margolis and Tom Rockmore(2000) GlobalJustice,editedbyThomasW.Pogge(2001) Cyberphilosophy:TheIntersectionofComputingandPhilosophy,editedby JamesH.MoorandTerrellWardBynum(2002) Moral and Epistemic Virtues, edited by Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard(2003) TheRangeofPragmatismandtheLimitsofPhilosophy,editedbyRichard Shusterman(2004) The Philosophical Challenge of September 11, edited by Tom Rockmore, JosephMargolis,andArmenT.Marsoobian(2005) GlobalInstitutionsandResponsibilities:AchievingGlobalJustice,editedby ChristianBarryandThomasW.Pogge(2005) Genocide’s Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair, edited by Claudia Card andArmenT.Marsoobian(2007) Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues, edited by Lori Gruen, Laura Gravel,andPeterSinger(2008) CognitiveDisabilityandItsChallengetoMoralPhilosophy,editedbyEva FederKittayandLiciaCarlson(2010) VirtueandVice,MoralandEpistemic,editedbyHeatherBattaly(2010) Global Democracyand Exclusion, edited by Ronald Tinnevelt and Helder DeSchutter(2010) Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Informa- tion,editedbyPatrickAllo(2011) ThePursuitofPhilosophy:SomeCambridgePerspectives,editedbyAlexis Papazoglou(2012) PhilosophicalEngineering:TowardaPhilosophyoftheWeb,editedbyHarry HalpinandAlexandreMonnin(2014) ThePhilosophyofLuck,editedbyDuncanPritchardandLeeJohnWhit- tington(2015) CriticismandCompassion:TheEthicsandPoliticsofClaudiaCard,edited byRobinS.DillonandArmenT.Marsoobian(2018) ConnectingVirtues:AdvancesinEthics,Epistemology,andPoliticalPhilos- ophy,editedbyMichelCroceandMariaSilviaVaccarezza(2018) Philosophy as a Way of Life, edited by James M. 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Coverimage:©JamesWarwick/GettyImages CoverdesignbyWiley Setin10/11ptTimesNewRomanMTStdbyStraive,Chennai,India 1 2023 CONTENTS NotesonContributors vii Introduction:TheUnexaminedPhilosophyIsNotWorth Doing 1 YAFENGSHAN Part1: DefendingPhilosophy 9 1 MetametaphysicsandSemantics 11 TIMOTHYWILLIAMSON 2 PhilosophyDoesn’tNeedaConceptofProgress 29 YAFENGSHAN 3 T-Philosophy 43 CHRISDALY Part2: HowtoDoPhilosophy 61 4 OntheContinuityofMetaphysicswithScience:Some ScepticismandSomeSuggestions 63 JACKRITCHIE 5 InDefenseofOrdinaryLanguagePhilosophy 89 HERMANCAPPELENANDMATTHEWMCKEEVER 6 TestingandDiscovery:RespondingtoChallengestoDigital PhilosophyofScience 111 CHARLESH.PENCE vi CONTENTS 7 AttentionalProgressbyConceptualEngineering 133 EVEKITSIK 8 ThePhilosophyofLogicalPractice 151 BENMARTIN 9 OnePhilosopher’sModusPonensIsAnother’sModusTollens: PantomemesandNisowir 175 JONWILLIAMSON 10 LinkingPerspectives:ARoleforPoetryinPhilosophical Inquiry 203 KARENSIMECEK Part3: DoingPhilosophy 221 11 GroundingInterventionism:ConceptualandEpistemological Challenges 223 AMANDABRYANT 12 ImpossibleWorldsandtheSafetyofPhilosophicalBeliefs 253 ZACKGARRETTANDZACHARIAHWRUBLEWSKI Index 277 NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS Amanda Bryant is an independent scholar with an interest in metaphilosophy, metametaphysics, the epistemology of metaphysics, and the metaphysics of science and scientific metaphysics, as well as naturalism and scientism. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2017, after which she held a fixed-term assistant professorship at Trent University and a postdoctoral research fellowshipattheUniversityofLisbon. Herman Cappelen is professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong,directoroftheAI&HumanityLab,andtheauthorofelevenmono- graphsandmorethanfiftyarticlesacrossarangeofphilosophicaltopics. HeiscurrentlyworkingonthephilosophyofAIandengineeringofpoliti- caldiscourse.HismostrecentbooksareMakingAIIntelligible,cowritten with Josh Dever (OUP, 2021), and The Concept of Democracy: An Essay onConceptualEngineeringandAbandonment. ChrisDalyisaprofessorofphilosophyattheUniversityofManchester.His researchinterestsareinphilosophyofscienceandphilosophyoflanguage, andheistheauthorofIntroductiontoPhilosophicalMethods(Broadview Press,2010)andPhilosophyofLanguage(Bloomsbury,2012). ZackGarrettteacheslogicandphilosophyatExcelsiorClassicalAcademy in Durham, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln in 2020, and his research interests include topics that lie at theintersections betweenmetaphysics, philosophy of language, and logic. He is particularly interested in nonclassical logics and argues in his dissertation that a many-valued logic is the best way to handle the phenomenonofvagueness. EveKitsikisavisitingresearcherattheUniversityofCologneinGermany. Shehaspublishedmainlyonmetametaphysicsandconceptualengineering, in such journals as Erkenntnis, Synthese, and Philosophia. Her current viii NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS research interests include epistemic value and the ethics of attention. BeforeCologne,shewasajuniorresearchfellowattheUniversityofTartu inEstonia. Ben Martin is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Padua.Beforethat,hewasaMarieSkłodowska-CurieFellowattheUni- versity of Bergen and the principal investigator for the European Union Horizon 2020–funded project The Unknown Science: Understanding the Epistemology of Logic Through Practice. He works mainly in the philos- ophyoflogicandepistemology,andhaspublishedinsuchjournalsasthe AustralasianJournalofPhilosophy,theJournalofPhilosophicalLogic,and Synthese. Matthew McKeever is postdoctoral research fellow in the AI&Humanity LabattheUniversityofHongKong.Hisrecentpublicationsincludework onsocialandpoliticalphilosophyoflanguageandphilosophyoftechnol- ogy,andhisresearchinterestsincludephilosophyoflanguageandmetaphi- losophy broadly construed, particularly their applicability to contempo- raryAIandothernoveltechnologies. Charles H. Pence is chargé de cours at the Université catholique de Louvain, in Louvainla-Neuve, Belgium, where he directs the Center for PhilosophyofScienceandSocieties(CEFISES).Hisworkcentersonthe philosophy and history of biology, with a focus on the introduction and contemporaryuseofchanceandstatisticsinevolution.Hislabalsoheavily utilizes methods from the digital humanities and is increasingly engaged intheethicalimplicationsofbiologicalscienceandtechnology. JackRitchieisanassociateprofessorintheDepartmentofPhilosophyat theUniversityofCapeTown.Hemainlyworksonissuesinthephilosophy of science, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy and is the author of Under- standingNaturalism(Routledge,2008)andseveraljournalarticles. YafengShanisaresearchfellowinepistemologyintheDepartmentofPhi- losophyattheUniversityofCologne,Germany.HereceivedhisPh.D.from UniversityCollegeLondon,andhismainresearchinterestsarephilosophy ofscience,epistemology,andmetaphysics.HeistheauthorofDoingInte- grated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics(Springer,2020)andhaspublishedresearcharticlesinsuchjour- nalsasSynthese,PhilosophyofScience,andPhilosophyCompass. KarenSimecekisanassociateprofessorofphilosophyattheUniversityof Warwick.Herresearchfocusesonthephilosophyofpoetry,philosophyof voice,andtheemotions.ShehaspublishedarticlesonpoetryintheBritish