The Philosophy of Philosophy

The second volume in the <i>Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy</i>, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. <br /> <ul> <li>Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson</li> <li>Rejects the ideology of the ‘linguistic turn’, the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy</li> <li>Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking</li> <li>Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing</li> </ul>