There is, in my view, a striking combination in Édouard Machery’s Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds of philosophical modesty and philosophical presumptiveness. Its call upon philosophers to give up their ambitious pursuits of metaphysical necessities, or essences, and to content themselves instead with the elucidation or analysis of our concepts, is made from within a pre-Kantian framework that takes the world expressed in human discourse and captured in our concepts to be a world as it is in itself, altogether independent of how it comes into view in our discursive practices. And this, I will propose, means that Machery’s critique of much of the work that has been carried out within mainstream analytic philosophy in the last few decades, as well as his proposal for philosophical reform, end up partaking in what has been most fundamentally problematic about that work.

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不连续性及其不满

我认为，爱德华·马切里的哲学在其合理范围之内有惊人的结合哲学上的谦虚和哲学上的推定。它呼吁哲学家放弃对形而上学必需品或本质的雄心勃勃的追求，而让自己满意于对我们的概念的阐明或分析，这是在一个康德前的框架内提出的，该框架以人类的话语表达并捕捉了世界。在我们的观念中要成为一个本身就是世界的世界，完全独立于我们的话语实践如何看待它。我要指出的是，这意味着马切里对过去几十年来在主流分析哲学中所做的许多工作的批评，以及他对哲学改革的建议，最终都归结为最根本的问题关于这项工作。