Frank Jackson (Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Institut

From Metaphysics to Ethics

A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed without it. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of
physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion and change, to the philosophy of colour and to ethics. In this way the book not only offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also throws fascinating new light on some much-debated problems and their
interrelations.

'I think that the book will be greeted as an important event in philosophical publishing.' Jaegwon Kim, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University

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Offering a methodological programme for philosophy, this book throws light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations. The author champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9780198250616
• ISBN-10: 0198250614
• Artikelnr.: 14981994

Autorenporträt

Frank Jackson is Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Serious metaphysics and supervenience
2. The role of conceptual analysis
3. Conceptual analysis and metaphysical necessity
4. The primary quality view of colour
5. The location problem for ethics: moral properties and moral content
6. Analytical descriptivism
Bibliography
Index.