The great endarkenment : philosophy for an age of hyperspecialization

313 Pages·2015·1.511 MB·English

by  Millgram, Elijah

TheGreatEndarkenment

The Great Endarkenment
PHILOSOPHYFORANAGE
OFHYPERSPECIALIZATION
ElijahMillgram
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
1. IntroductoryRemarksontheTowerofBabel 1
2. TheGreatEndarkenment 21
AppendixA 44
AppendixB 49
3. PracticalReasoningforSerialHyperspecializers 54
4. D’oùvenons-nous...Quesommesnous...Oùallons-nous? 77
5. MillianMetaethics 101
6. WhyDoWeThinkThereAreThingsWeOughttoDo? 126
7. Lewis’sEpicycles,PossibleWorlds,andtheMysteriesofModality 155
8. ProgressiveNecessity 188
9. AppliedEthics,MoralSkepticism,andReasonswithExpirationDates 221
10. SegmentedAgency 234
Postscript 263
11. Afterword:ACalltoArms 269
Bibliography 283
Index 297

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Anumberofthechaptersinthisvolumehavemadepreviousappearances:
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“TheGreatEndarkenment”includesmaterialfromareviewofSteven
Hales,editor,ACompaniontoRelativism,whichappearedinNotreDame
PhilosophicalReviews,April2012.
(cid:129)
“PracticalReasoningforSerialHyperspecializers”appearedin
PhilosophicalExplorations12(3):261–278.September2009.Reprintedby
permissionofthepublisher(Taylor&FrancisLtd,
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals).
(cid:129)
“D’oùvenons-nous...Quesommesnous...Oùallons-nous?”
originallyappearedinD.Callcut,ReadingBernardWilliams(London:
Routledge,2009):141–165.
(cid:129)
“MillianMetaethics”isarevisedandexpandedversionof“Mètaètica
mìlliana,”QuadernidiScienzaPoliticaXVII,2(2010):245–265.
(cid:129)
“AppliedEthics,MoralSkepticism,andReasonswithExpirationDates”
appearedinS.BlackandE.Tiffany,ReasonstobeMoralRevisited
(Calgary:UniversityofCalgaryPress,2009):263–280.Reprintedby
permissionofthepublisher(http://www.tandfonline.com).
(cid:129)
“SegmentedAgency”appearedinM.VargasandG.Yaffe,Rationaland
SocialAgency:ThePhilosophyofMichaelBratman(Oxford:Oxford
UniversityPress,2014):152–189.
I am very grateful for permission to reprint. Acknowledgments are to be
found chapter by chapter, but it is especially appropriate to thank the John
SimonGuggenheimMemorialFoundationhere,forprovidingfellowshipsup-
portduringthetimethebookasawholewasbeingassembled.Thanksalsoto
AliyaKhanforproofchecking.
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