Notes on Contributors .......................................... ix
Introduction I: Philosophy and the Perils of Progress ........... 1
Russell Blackford
Introduction II: Philosophy on the Inclined Plane .............. 13
Damien Broderick
Part 1. Roads to Progress in Philosophy ........................ 19
1 Coming Out of the Shade ..................................... 21
Myisha Cherry
2 What has Philosophy Ever Done for Us? ....................... 31
James Ladyman
3 Progress and Philosophy ..................................... 41
Noretta Koertge
4 Only Connect ................................................ 51
Frank Jackson
Part 2. Bumps in the Road, Rabbits in the Landscape ............ 61
5 Chmess, Abiding Significance, and Rabbit Holes .............. 63
Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay
6 Philosophy as the Evocation of Conceptual Landscapes ........ 75
Massimo Pigliucci
7 Three Barriers to Philosophical Progress .................... 91
Jessica Wilson
Part 5 Cautious Optimism .................................... 105
8 Is there Progress in Philosophy? A Brief Case for
Optimism ................................................... 107
Daniel Stoljar
9 Is Philosophy Progressing Fast Enough? ..................... 119
Stuart Brock
10 Does Philosophical Progress Matter? ........................ 133
Richard Kamber
Part 4 Philosophy and Science ................................ 145
11 Between Gods and Apes: On the Lack of Scientific and
Philosophical Progress ..................................... 147
Mark Walker
12 Model-Building in Philosophy ............................... 159
Timothy Williamson
13 Progress in Philosophy and in the Physical Sciences: How
Far Does The Analogy Hold? ................................. 173
Christopher Norris
Part 5 Re-Imagining the Conversation ........................ 191
14 Philosophy as"lntellectual War of Values" .................. 193
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
15 Re-Imagining the Philosophical Conversation ................ 201
Karen Green
16 David Lewis and the Kangaroo: Graphing Philosophical
Progress ................................................... 213
Benj Hellie
17 Philosophy, Progress, and Identity ......................... 227
Ward E. Jones
Index ......................................................... 241
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