Following the argument where it leads |
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Authors: | Thomas Kelly |
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Affiliation: | (1) Princeton University, 1879 Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA |
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Abstract: | Throughout the history of western philosophy, the Socratic injunction to ‘follow the argument where it leads’ has exerted a powerful attraction. But what is it, exactly, to follow the argument where it leads? I explore this intellectual ideal and offer a modest proposal as to how we should understand it. On my proposal, following the argument where it leaves involves a kind of modalized reasonableness. I then consider the relationship between the ideal and common sense or ‘Moorean’ responses to revisionary philosophical theorizing. |
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