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Author Millgram, Elijah, author.

Title The great endarkenment : philosophy for an age of hyperspecialization / Elijah Millgram
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Contents Introductory remarks on the Tower of Babel -- The great endarkenment -- Appendix a -- Appendix b -- Practical reasoning for serial hyperspecializers -- D'où venons-nous. . . que sommes nous. . .où allons-nous? -- Millian metaethics -- Why do we think there are things we ought to do? -- Lewis's epicycles, possible worlds, and the mysteries of modality -- Progressive necessity -- Applied ethics, moral skepticism and reasons with expiration dates -- Segmented agency -- Postscript
Summary Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activities of experts in different disciplines who do not understand one another. Because these problems are unrecognized, and because we do not have solutions for them, we are on the verge of an age in which decisions that depend on understanding more than one discipline at a time will be made badly. Si
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century -- Methodology
Specialism (Philosophy)
Analysis (Philosophy)
Specialization
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern -- Methodology
Specialism (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199326037
0199326037