Possibility of Philosophical Understanding

Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud
Herausgeber: Bridges, Jason; Wong, Wai-Hung; Kolodny, Niko

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Produktbeschreibung

Barry Stroud's work has had a profound impact on a very wide array of philosophical topics, but there has heretofore been no book-length treatment of his work. The current collection aims to redress this gap, with 13 essays on Stroud's work, all but one new to this volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780195381658
• ISBN-10: 0195381653
• Artikelnr.: 33372040

Autorenporträt

Bridges: Philosophy, University of Chicago; Kolodny: Philosophy, UC Berkeley; Wong: Philosophy, CSU Chico

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: The Question to Understand Philosophy
* 2. Rethinking Hume's Second Thoughts about Personal Identity
* Skepticism and Knowledge
* 3. External World Scepticism and the Structure of Epistemic
Entitlement
* 4. Stroud and Pyrrhonism
* 5. Transcendental and Circular Reasoning
* 6. Stroud's Proposal for Removing the Threat of Skepticism
* 7. What the Skeptic Still Can't Learn from How We Use the Word 'Know'
* Meaning and Reason
* 8. Inside and Outside Language: Stroud's Nonreductionism about
Meaning
* 9. Dispositions and Rational Explanation
* Subjectivism and Reality
* 10. Colours as Secondary Qualities
* 11. Intelligible Causation
* 12. Unsettling Subjectivism about Value
* 13. Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Time