Essays on metaphysics and the theory of knowledge

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Essays on metaphysics and the theory of knowledge

Jonathan Harrison

(Avebury series in philosophy)

Avebury, c1995

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1 ISBN 9781856289337

内容説明

A detailed consideration of a number of problems concerning the meaning of moral judgements and the justification of morality, and the usefulness and origin of the institution of morality.

目次

  • Mind/body problem - a philosopher's nightmare, or the ghost not laid (1966-7)
  • the embodiment of mind, or what use is having a body? (1973-4)
  • Professor Putnam on brains in vats (1985)
  • in the defence of the demon (1989)
  • brains in vats and disembodied spirits
  • fairies to the rescue
  • the absurdity of the ego
  • the Blue and Brown Fairy Books - introduction
  • verification after death
  • the philosophy of mysticism
  • time travel - Dr Who and the philosophers, or time travel for beginners
  • the letter
  • Jacosta's crime.
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2 ISBN 9781856289344

内容説明

This collection of essays on metaphysics and epistemology covers such topics as perception, knowledge and belief, the constitution of matter, the nature of the self, and quantum logic.

目次

  • Part 1 Perception: the third dimension (1960-61)
  • direct perception and the sense-datum theory (1976)
  • science, souls and sense-data (1993)
  • a facade theory of visual perception
  • the Russell/leibniz theory of perception. Part 2 Knowledge and belief: Mr Malcolm on knowledge and belief (1953)
  • knowing and promising (1963)
  • does knowing imply believing? (1963)
  • heir of Frankenstein or justified true belief and personal identity (1978)
  • if I know, I can't be wrong (1978-9)
  • the truth of statements of knowledge and the propriety of making them (1985)
  • goodbye to Gettier, or the conversational implications of some judgements about knowledge (1985)
  • the incorrigibility of the cogito (1985)
  • the confusions of Kripke (1986). Part 3 Untangled tales - fables on space, time, the constitution of matter, divine intervention, and the nature of the self: let chaos reign (1985)
  • the philosopher's folly (1985)
  • George's jaunts and jollities, or the chronicles of Cloyne (1985)
  • monas Monadum rules ok (1985)
  • let there be light (1985)
  • journey to the centre of the atom (1985)
  • carrollian spaces (1985)
  • the magic looking glass (1985)
  • the inescapable I (1985). Part 4 Miscellaneous: water on the brain
  • how happy I could be with either. Part 5 Unfulfilled conditionals: unfulfilled conditionals and the truth of their constituents
  • Mr Gower on unfulfilled conditionals, etc. Part 6 Quantum logic: against quantum logic (1984)
  • distribution, superposition and quantum logic (1985)
  • as dead as alive, or quantum logic again. Postscript: philosophers caught by Catch-22, with special reference to some arguments against utilitarianism.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA27378130
  • ISBN
    • 1856289338
    • 1856289346
  • LCCN
    95076040
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Aldershot
  • ページ数/冊数
    v.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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