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The philosophy of philosophy

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

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