The great endarkenment : philosophy for an age of hyperspecialization

The great endarkenment : philosophy for an age of hyperspecialization / Elijah Millgram.

Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activ...

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Main Author: Millgram, Elijah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century > Methodology.
Specialism (Philosophy)
Analysis (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy, Modern > Methodology
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Table of Contents:
  • Introductory remarks on the Tower of Babel
  • The great endarkenment
  • Appendix a
  • Appendix b
  • Practical reasoning for serial hyperspecializers
  • D'où venons-nous. . . que sommes nous. . .où allons-nous?
  • Millian metaethics
  • Why do we think there are things we ought to do?
  • Lewis's epicycles, possible worlds, and the mysteries of modality
  • Progressive necessity
  • Applied ethics, moral skepticism and reasons with expiration dates
  • Segmented agency
  • Postscript.

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