• Publisher:   Wiley-Blackwell
• Number Of Pages:   352
• Publication Date:   2007-12-19
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1405133961
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781405133968
• Binding:   Paperback

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.

• Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson
  
• Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy
  
• Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking
  
• Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing