The Third Moment of Truth

Auteurs

  • Balázs Gyenis Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN, Budapest

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14232/kulonbseg.2023.23.1.313

Mots-clés :

filozófiai probléma, metainduktív szkepticizmus, episztemológia, metafizika, tudományfilozófia, tudománytörténet

Résumé

In Moments of Truth (2018) János Tőzsér gave two arguments that the methods of philosophy are not suitable for solving philosophical problems: the first is based on the nature of philosophical problems, while the second is based on meta-inductive skepticism. First, I point out that Tőzsér’s notion of “philosophical problem” entails the thesis that there is no formal difference between philosophical problems and certain fundamental kind of scientific problems, and I argue that it does not follow from the nature of philosophical problems that we have no hope to solve them. Second, I argue that the same thesis entails that Tőzsér’s meta-inductive argument is faulty: it is either an example of survivorship bias, or it commits petitio principii. Since both arguments of Tőzsér fail, on their basis we have no reason to be skeptical about the potential for success of philosophical methods. Finally, we point out that Tőzsér’s new book, The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge (2023) also faces the same type of criticism as the arguments of his earlier book.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Balázs Gyenis, Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN, Budapest

Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities (HUN-REN), Budapest; his main research interest is in the philosophy of sciences. Besides his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science), he graduated in Physics, Philosophy and Theoretical Economics, too. He provides lectures frequently at the Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest and taught previously at the universities of Pittsburgh and Illinois as well as the London School of Economics.

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Publiée

2024-03-18

Comment citer

Gyenis, B. (2024). The Third Moment of Truth. KÜLÖNBSÉG (Difference), 23(1), 165–183. https://doi.org/10.14232/kulonbseg.2023.23.1.313

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