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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828202403321

Titolo

Wittgenstein and the moral life : essays in honor of Cora Diamond / / edited by Alice Crary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-09876-4

9786612098765

0-262-27096-X

1-4294-7965-5

Descrizione fisica

viii, 409 p

Collana

Representation and mind

Altri autori (Persone)

DiamondCora

CraryAlice <1967->

Disciplina

170.92

Soggetti

Ethics, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mild mono-Wittgensteinianism / James Conant -- The cardinal problem of philosophy / Michael Kremer -- Wittgenstein and the inexpressible / Juliet Floyd -- Wittgenstein and the real numbers  / Hilary Putnam -- Holism and animal minds / David H. Finkelstein -- Companionable thinking / Stanley Cavell -- Comment on Stanley Cavell's "Companionable thinking" / John McDowell -- "In spite of the misery of the world": ethics, contemplation, and the source of value / Sabina Lovibond -- A novel in which nothing happens: Fontane's Der Stechlin and literary friendship / Martha Nussbaum -- The mortality of the soul: Bernard Williams' character(s) / Stephen Mulhall -- Humans, animals, right and wrong / Alice Crary.

Sommario/riassunto

Essays by leading scholars that take as their point of departure Cora Diamond's work on the unity of Wittgenstein's thought and her writings on moral philosophy.