List of readings with links to those available online
Core reading:
Timothy Williamson: Doing Philosophy (Oxford University Press)
Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (eds. Cappelen, Gendler, and Hawthorne) Available for free through Oxford Scholarship Online.
Articles: All available online:
Russell: The Value of Philosophy (from his book, The Problems of Philosophy: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/RussellValuePhilosophy1912.pdf )
Cappelen: In Defense of Philosophy – available on Canvas (and emailed to all students)
Cappelen and Plunkett: “A Guided Tour of Conceptual Engineering” available here:
Cappelen: ‘X-Phi without Intuitions?” http://hermancappelen.net/docs/XPHI-WO-FINAL.pdf
Chalmers: Why isn’t there more progress in philosophy? http://consc.net/papers/progress.pdf
Cappelen: Disagreement in Philosophy: an Optimistic Perspective (in Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1dnpa1e5pnh1tw/Disagreement%20in%20Philosophy%20Final.pdf?dl=0
Chalmers: “Verbal Disputes”: http://consc.net/papers/verbal.pdf
Haslanger: ‘What good are our Intuitions?”
http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/papers/HaslangerWGOI.pdf
Williamson: “What is Naturalism?”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/what-is-naturalism/
Williamson: “On Ducking Challenges to Naturalism”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/on-ducking-challenges-to-naturalism/