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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.