Scepticism and naturalism:some varieties
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Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | London New York |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xlii, 85 p.: ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780415450492 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415450497 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | B083 |
CLC: |
B083 B089 |
Call Number: | B083/S913 |
Contents: |
"The Woodbridge lectures 1983." Orignially published: Great Britain : Methuen & Co Ltd., 1985. Includes bibliographical references and index. Foreword / by Quassim Cassam -- Intellectual autobiography / by P.F. Strawson -- Scepticism, naturalism, and transcendental arguments -- Introductory remarks -- Traditional scepticism -- Hume : reason and nature -- Hume and Wittgenstein -- Only connect : the role of transcendental arguments -- Three quotations -- Historicism : and the past -- Morality and perception -- Involvement and detachment -- The relativizing move and the two faces of naturalism -- A parallel case : perception and its objects -- Evasion or solution reconciliation or surrender? -- The mental and the physical -- The position so far -- The identity thesis : the two stories and their interface -- Identity or causal linkage? -- An imperfect parallel -- The matter of meaning -- Intensional entities : rejectionists and their obligations -- A naturalistic reduction : correctness and agreement in use -- The debate over recognition -- The debate over necessity -- Solution or conflict : an inconclusive conclusion. |