Russell BlackfordDamien Broderick - Philosophys Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress

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Edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick

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To Graham Oppy,
for fellowship and support

Russell Blackford

To the ghost of Hector Monro,
Foundation Chair of Philosophy, 19611976, Monash University

Damien Broderick

Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic, based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His books include Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (2012), Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (2014), and The Mystery of Moral Authority (2016). @Metamagician

Peter Boghossian is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University and an affiliated faculty member at Oregon Health Science University in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists. @peterboghossian

Stuart Brock received his PhD from Princeton University in 2002, previously taught at Western Washington University in the United States, and is an Associate Professor in the philosophy program at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is currently Dean of Postgraduate Students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and has published work on fiction and metaphysics.

Damien Broderick holds a PhD in the literary theory of the sciences and the arts, and has written or edited some 70 books in several disciplines, including a number of prizewinning novels. The Spike (1997, 2001) was the first general treatment of the Singularity. In 2008, he edited an original science anthology, Year Million, on the prospects of humankind in the remote future, and with Russell Blackford he coedited Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (2014).

Myisha Cherry is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is interested in the intersection of moral psychology and political philosophy. Cherry is also a blogger for the Huffington Post and host and producer of the UnMute Podcast, a podcast where philosophy and realworld issues collide.

Karen Green is the author of The Woman of Reason (1995), Dummett: Philosophy of Language (2001), A History of Womens Political Thought in Europe, 14001700 (with Jacqueline Broad, 2009), and A History of Womens Political Thought in Europe, 17001800 (2014). During 2015 she was Rosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders Circle Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has an honorary appointment at The University of Melbourne.

Benj Hellie is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He works on mind and language, within a mathematized transcendental idealism inspired by Rudolf Carnap. If his own research makes progress, it is in significant part by tugging on loose strands in David Lewiss tightlyknit system.

Frank Jackson is Emeritus Professor in the School of Philosophy at The Australian National University. His books include From Metaphysics to Ethics (1998), and Language, Names, and Information (2010).

Ward E. Jones teaches philosophy at Rhodes University, and is coeditor of Philosophical Papers.

Richard Kamber is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey and President of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. He is the author of On Sartre (2000) and On Camus (2002). He has published articles on a variety of subjects, including aesthetics, existentialism, higher education, and the Holocaust.

Noretta Koertge is Professor Emeritus in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and continues to teach undergraduate seminars in the Hutton Honors College. She is past editor of the journal Philosophy of Science and the New Dictionary of History of Science and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and coeditor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, with a PhD on the semantic approach to scientific theories and structural realism. He has been assistant, deputy and coeditor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and honorary secretary of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Understanding Philosophy of Science, and (with Don Ross) Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized.

James A. Lindsay