Description: 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 3 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 "Intellectual 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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