Understanding Philosophical Progress

该项目旨在通过将科学进步的思维解释扩展为哲学进步的解释，发展第一个科学和哲学进步的统一解释。根据这一说法，进步在于加深理解，即，理解一个事物如何依赖于另一个事物，或者不依赖于另一个事物。发展一个统一的帐户将揭示知识进步的性质相当普遍，以及实质性地推进元哲学辩论（i）哲学进步的流行;（ii）是否，以及如何，专家的分歧会破坏进步;（iii）哲学方法论促进进步。

This project aims to develop the first unified account of progress in science and philosophy, by extending the noetic account of scientific progress into an account of philosophical progress. According to this account, progress consists in increased understanding, i.e., in grasping how something depends on, or fails to depend on, something else. Developing a unified account will shed light on the nature of intellectual progress quite generally, as well substantially advancing meta-philosophical debates about (i) the prevalence of philosophical progress; (ii) whether, and the ways in which, expert disagreement would undermine progress; and (iii) which philosophical methodologies promote progress.