Frank Jackson's defense of conceptual analysis as the method linking ordinary discourse to serious metaphysics, arguing that philosophy must pass through conceptual claims before reaching ontological ones.
Argues that a priori conceptual analysis is indispensable for connecting folk theories to scientific ontology, rehabilitating the method against Quinean naturalist attacks.
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