Frank Jackson

Mind, Method and Conditionals (eBook, PDF)

Selected Papers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together some of Frank Jackson's most influential essays on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, and ethics. These have each been revised for this edition, and are presented along with his challenge to orthodoxy on the new riddle of induction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134707959
• Artikelnr.: 40808936

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Conditionals
Chapter 1 On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals
Chapter 2 Classifying Conditionals I
Chapter 3 Classifying Conditionals II
Chapter 4 Postscript on Truth Conditions and Assertability
Part II Mind
Chapter 5 Epiphenomenal Qualia
Chapter 6 What Mary Didn't Know
Chapter 7 Postscript on Qualia
Chapter 8 Mental Causation I
Chapter 9 Mental Causation without the Language of Thought
Part III Method in Metaphysics
Chapter 10 Metaphysics by Possible Cases
Chapter 11 Armchair Metaphysics
Part IV Ethics and Action Theory
Chapter 12 Weakness of Will
Chapter 13 On The Semantics and Logic of Obligation
Chapter 14 Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection
Part V Induction
Chapter 15 Grue