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Philosophical Provocations : 55 Short Essays /
Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2017]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- I. Mind. The Mystery of the Unconscious -- Concepts of Mind -- Knowledge and Emotion: An Untenable Dualism -- The Second Mind -- Awareness of Time -- Mind-Brain Identity Theories -- Are There Actions? -- Actions and Reasons -- Consciousness and Light -- Have We Already Solved the Mind-Body Problem? -- The Reality of the Inner -- The Thought of Language -- II Language. Meaning Monism -- Against Language-Games -- Meaning without Language -- For Privacy -- On the Impossibility of a (Wholly) Public Language -- Deciding to Mean -- Truth, Verification, and Meaning -- Meaning and Argument -- III Knowledge. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Knowledge and Truth -- Proof of an External World -- The Simulation Game -- The Riddle of Knowledge -- Does Knowledge Imply Truth? -- Everything Is Hidden -- Light and Our Knowledge of Matter -- Seeing the Light -- IV Metaphysics -- Knowing and Necessity -- Antirealism Refuted -- The Puzzle of Paradox -- The Secret Cement -- Analysis and Mystery -- Explanation and Necessity; Against Possible Worlds; The Concept of a Person; The Question of Being; Science as Metaphysics; Logic without Propositions (or Sentences); V Biology -- Selfish Genes and Moral Parasites -- The Evolution of Color -- The Language of Evolution. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Immaterial DarwinismTrait Selection -- VI Ethics. The Trouble with Consequentialism -- Absurd Utilitarianism -- Why Is It Good to Be Alive? -- Physical Noncognitivism -- Child Liberation -- Modesty and Self-Knowledge -- Is Romantic Self-Love Possible? -- Against Laughter -- VII Religion. A Deontological Theodicy -- God and the Devil -- A Religion of Hate -- Index. | |
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