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No morality, no self : Anscombe's radical skepticism /

It is becoming increasingly apparent that Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001), long known as a student, friend and translator of Wittgenstein, was herself one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. No Morality, No Self examines her two best-known papers, in which she advanced her mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doyle, James, 1963 November 18- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. No morality: "Modern moral philosophy" (1958): Virtue ethics, eudaimonism, and the Greeks
  • The invention of 'morality' and the possibility of consequentialism
  • The misguided project of vindicating morality
  • The futility of seeking the extension of a word with no intension
  • What's really wrong with the vocabulary of morality?
  • Assessing MMP
  • Part Two: No self: "the first person" (1975): The circularity problem for accounts of 'I' as a device of self-reference
  • Is the fundamental reference rule for 'I' the key to explaining first person self-reference?
  • Rumfitt's solution to the circularity problem
  • Can we make sense of a non-referential account of 'I'?
  • Strategies for saving 'I' as a singular term: domesticating FP and deflating reference
  • The first person and abstraction
  • Epilogue: The anti-cartesian basis of Anscombe's scepticism.