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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967248503321

Autore

Jackson Frank <1943->

Titolo

From metaphysics to ethics : a defence of conceptual analysis / / Frank Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-159778-3

1-282-05180-6

9786612051807

0-19-151903-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 174 pages)

Disciplina

146/.4

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Ch. 1. Serious Metaphysics and Supervenience -- ; Ch. 2. The Role of Conceptual Analysis -- ; Ch. 3. Conceptual Analysis and Metaphysical Necessity -- ; Ch. 4. The Primary Quality View of Colour -- ; Ch. 5. The Location Problem for Ethics: Moral Properties and Moral Content -- ; Ch. 6. Analytical Descriptivism.

Sommario/riassunto

Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. He offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also throws new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.