Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23213580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Grundmann (0000-0002-7276-7345, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Marcel Van Ackeren, Lee Klein |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 51-68 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Philosophy and the Historical Perspective (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | British Academy (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5871/bacad/9780197266298.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2912313771 |
| ISBN | 9780197266298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
What is the epistemic significance of reflecting on a discipline’s past for making progress in that discipline? The author assumes that the answer to this question negatively correlates with that discipline’s degree of progress over time. If and only if a science is progressive, then what people have thought and argued in the past in that discipline ceases to be up to date. This chapter distinguishes different dimensions of disciplinary progress and subsequently argue that veritic progress, that is, collective convergence to truth, is the most important dimension for disciplines with scientific ambitions. It then argues that, on the one hand, veritic progress in philosophy is more significant than many current philosophers believe, but that, on the other hand, it also has severe limitations. The author offers an explanation of these limitations that suggests that the history of philosophy should play some role, though only a minor one, in systematic philosophy.
Convergence (economics) · Dimension (graph theory) · Discipline · Epistemology · Philosophy of science · Social science · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |