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Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3
Av David Lewis, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; …
The Myth of Morality
Häftad, 2007
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455 kr
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In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, …
Intrinsic Value
Concept and Warrant
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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This book addresses some basic questions about intrinsic value: What is it? What has it? What justifies our beliefs about it? In the first six chapters the author defends the existence of a plurality of intrinsic goods, the thesis of organic unities, the view that some goods are 'higher' than …
Ethics and the A Priori
Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
Av Michael Smith, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
504 kr
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Michael Smith has written a series of seminal essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. This long awaited collection comprises some …
The Correspondence Theory of Truth
An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication
Av Andrew Newman, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
618 kr
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This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a …
Mind, Reason and Imagination
Selected Essays in Philosophy of Mind and Language
Av Jane Heal
Häftad, 2003
650 kr
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Recent philosophy of mind has had a mistaken conception of the nature of psychological concepts. It has assumed too much similarity between psychological judgments and those of natural science and has thus overlooked the fact that other people are not just objects whose thoughts we may try to …
Living without Free Will
Av Derk Pereboom, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
413 kr
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Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is …
Subjects of Experience
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2006
813 kr
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In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and their bodies, E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, …
Theories of Vagueness
Av Rosanna Keefe, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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846 kr
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Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing philosophical attention, and in this book, first …
Uneasy Virtue
Av Julia Driver, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
699 kr
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The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver …
Practical Rules
When We Need Them and When We Don't
Av Alan H. Goldman, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
605 kr
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Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? …
Other Times
Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and Future
Av David Cockburn, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
487 kr
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We view things from a certain position in time: in our language, thought, feelings and actions, we draw distinctions between what has happened, is happening, and will happen. Frequently, approaches to this feature of our lives - those seen in disputes between tensed and tenseless theories, between …
Consciousness and the Origins of Thought
Häftad, 2007
667 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive and broadly rationalist theory of the mind which continually tests itself against experimental results and clinical data. Taking issue with Empiricists who believe that all knowledge arises from experience and that perception is a non-cognitive state, Norton Nelkin …
The Physical Basis of Predication
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and logic, the idea of possibility, hierarchies of universals, and causation. He argues that neither language nor logic is a reliable guide to the nature …
Scientific Essentialism
Av Brian Ellis
Häftad, 2007
927 kr
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Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said to operate, and are therefore not independent of them. These laws are not imposed upon the world by God, the forces of nature or anything else, but …
The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding
Häftad, 2007
813 kr
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Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of …
Implicature
Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its content). Gricean theory claims that conversational implicatures can be explained and predicted using general psycho-social principles. This theory has …
Mind and Supermind
Häftad, 2007
846 kr
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Mind and Supermind offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. Keith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which have different properties and support different kinds of mental …
Belief Policies
Av Paul Helm
Häftad, 2007
618 kr
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How do we form and modify our beliefs about the world? It is widely accepted that what we believe is determined by evidence, and is therefore not directly under our control; but according to what criteria is the credibility of the evidence established? Professor Helm argues that no theory of …
The Concept of Moral Obligation
Häftad, 2007
878 kr
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The principal aim of this book is to develop and defend an analysis of the concept of moral obligation. The analysis is neutral regarding competing substantive theories of obligation, whether consequentialist or deontological in character. What it seeks to do is generate solutions to a range of …
Seeing through Self-Deception
Häftad, 2007
621 kr
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What is it to deceive someone? And how is it possible to deceive oneself? Does self-deception require that people be taken in by a deceitful strategy that they know is deceitful? The literature is divided between those who argue that self-deception is intentional and those who argue that it is …
A Physicalist Manifesto
Thoroughly Modern Materialism
Häftad, 2007
422 kr
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A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best formulated by appeal to a carefully worked-out notion of realization, rather than supervenience; that, so formulated, …
Meaning, Expression and Thought
Häftad, 2007
846 kr
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This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of …
Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various authorities, such as a recognized expert or a social tradition? In this provocative account of intellectual trust and authority, Richard Foley argues …
Emotional Reason
Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value
Häftad, 2007
828 kr
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How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm argues that standard philosophical answers to these questions presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and conation that undermines an adequate understanding …
Deontic Morality and Control
Häftad, 2007
700 kr
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This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over their actions. But it is morally obligatory, right or wrong for one to …
The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language
Häftad, 2007
703 kr
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Christopher Maloney offers an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought. He posits the idea that thinking involves the processing of mental representations that take the form of sentences in a covert language encoded in the mind. The theory relies upon traditional categories of psychology, …
Brute Rationality
Normativity and Human Action
Av Joshua Gert
Häftad, 2007
797 kr
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This book presents an account of normative practical reasons and the way in which they contribute to the rationality of action. Rather than simply 'counting in favour of' actions, normative reasons play two logically distinct roles: requiring action and justifying action. The distinction between …
Substance among Other Categories
Av Joshua Hoffman, Gary S. Rosenkrantz
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept …
Object and Property
Av Arda Denkel
Häftad, 2007
781 kr
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Professor Arda Denkel argues here that objects are nothing more than bundles of properties. From this point of view he tackles some central questions of ontology: how is an object distinct from others; how does it remain the same while it changes through time? A second contention is that properties …
