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The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy
About this book
This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense in the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore, drawing on the work of Aristotle, evolutionary biology and psychology, and historical studies on the origins of early modern philosophy. It defines and explores common sense beliefs, and defends them from challenges from prominent philosophers.
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Analytic PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Two Tribes
- 1 The Metaphilosophy of Common Sense
- 2 The “Evolutionary Argument” and the Metaphilosophy of Common Sense
- 3 Towards a Taxonomy of Philosophical Error
- 4 Theology’s Trojan Horse
- 5 Metaphysical Realism as a Pre-condition of Visual Perception
- 6 Semantic Anti-Realism and the Dummettian Reductio
- 7 Eliminating Eliminative Materialism
- 8 Freedom and Responsibility
- 9 On the Existence of Moral Facts
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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