{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-philosophy-hardcover","title":"The Philosophy of Philosophy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Williamson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe expanded new edition of one of the most influential and controversial books about the nature of philosophy published in the past several decades \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author rejects the standard narratives of contemporary philosophy developed from naturalism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and other prominent trends of the twentieth century. Viewing the method of philosophy as evolving from non-philosophical pursuits, Williamson provides readers with fresh insight into the \"self-image\" of philosophy and offers new ways of understanding what philosophy is and how it actually works. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow in its second edition, this landmark volume comprises the original book and the author's subsequent work. New topics include the recent history of analytic philosophy, assessments of experimental philosophy, theories of concepts and understanding, Wittgensteinian approaches, popular philosophy, naturalism, morally-loaded examples in philosophy, philosophical applications of scientific methods, and many more. This edition features the author's latest thoughts on a variety of issues, autobiographical reflections, and replies to critics. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProposes an alternative narrative about the nature of philosophy \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that the common assumption of philosophical exceptionalism is false \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the similarities between philosophy and the other sciences in both methodology and subject matter \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores why contemporary philosophy has failed to articulate an adequate methodology \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmphasizes increasing the methodological standards of reasoning in philosophy \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Philosophy, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e remains essential reading for philosophers, scholars, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in philosophy, and other readers with a sustained interest in the method and rationale of the doing of philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell \/ Brown Lectures in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author rejects the standard narratives of contemporary philosophy developed from naturalism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and other prominent trends of the twentieth century. Viewing the method of philosophy as evolving from non-philosophical pursuits, Williamson provides readers with fresh insight into the \"self-image\" of philosophy and offers new ways of understanding what philosophy is and how it actually works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in its second edition, this landmark volume comprises the original book and the author's subsequent work. New topics include the recent history of analytic philosophy, assessments of experimental philosophy, theories of concepts and understanding, Wittgensteinian approaches, popular philosophy, naturalism, morally-loaded examples in philosophy, philosophical applications of scientific methods, and many more. This edition features the author's latest thoughts on a variety of issues, autobiographical reflections, and replies to critics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Philosophy, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e remains essential reading for philosophers, scholars, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in philosophy, and other readers with a sustained interest in the method and rationale of the doing of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Williamson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University and Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor at Yale University. He was previously Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University, and has been Visiting Professor at MIT, Princeton University, University of Michigan, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 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