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The act itself [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Bennett
| The act itself [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170.4/4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Consequentialism (Ethics)
Act (Philosophy) Human behavior |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-159707-4
1-281-98087-0 9786611980870 0-19-151894-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. ANALYSIS""; ""1. Morality's Grid""; ""2. What is Analysis?""; ""3. Objections to Philosophical Analysis""; ""4. A Statement of Non-realism""; ""5. Moral Non-realism and Entailment""; ""6. Unifying Theory""; ""7. Levels of Morality""; ""2. FACTS ABOUT BEHAVIOUR""; ""8. How the 'By'-Locution Works""; ""9. 'Act'""; ""10. The Grammar of the 'By'-Locution""; ""11. Intrinsic Behavioural Facts""; ""12. Relational Features of Behaviour""; ""13. Fact Causation""; ""14. 'Itself'""; ""3. MORAL JUDGEMENT""; ""15. First- and Second-Order Morality""
""16. Knowability and First-Order Morality""""17. Concepts of Probability""; ""18. The Probability Principle""; ""19. Morality and Bad Luck""; ""4. MAKING/ALLOWING""; ""20. The Difference between Making and Allowing""; ""21. Trouble with 'Allow' and 'Let'""; ""22. The Bubble Phenomenon""; ""23. Prepositional Matches""; ""24. The Match Phenomenon""; ""5. MORAL SIGNIFICANCE""; ""25. Basic Moral Significance""; ""26. Intuitions about Cases""; ""27. Sometimes but not Always?""; ""28. The Difficulty Excuse""; ""6. POSITIVE/NEGATIVE""; ""29. 'Negative Acts'""; ""30. Negative Relevance"" ""31. A Metric for the Behaviour Space""""32. The Immobility Objection""; ""33. Doubts about the Metric""; ""7. ACTIVE/PASSIVE""; ""34. Agency and 'the Course of Nature'""; ""35. The Two Distinctions as Collaborators""; ""36. Immobility Again""; ""37. What is 'the Course of Nature'?""; ""38. The Non-intervention Principle""; ""8. OTHER ATTEMPTS""; ""39. Changing Conditions""; ""40. Threats and Efforts""; ""41. Making and Causing""; ""42. A Short Lecture on Pragmatics""; ""43. Tighter Meanings for 'Cause'?""; ""44. Other Attempted Analyses""; ""45. The Neutrality of Making/Allowing"" ""9. DEMANDS""""46. Morality as too Demanding: Tight Reins""; ""47. Morality as too Demanding: The Thwarting of Desires""; ""48. Morality of Self-interest""; ""49. Affections""; ""50. The Collapse of the Self-interest Defence""; ""51. Arguing for Making/Allowing Asymmetry""; ""10. ATROCITIES""; ""52. Crises""; ""53. Forms of Absolutism""; ""54. Atrocity and Policy""; ""55. Absolutism and Moral Character""; ""56. Comparative Value of Upshots""; ""57. Other Agents""; ""58. Their Projects""; ""59. Deontology""; ""11. INTENTIONS""; ""60. Intentions and First-Order Morality"" ""61. The Principle of Double Effect""""62. Intentions as Explanatory""; ""63. Delimiting the Means: Acts and Events""; ""64. Delimiting the Means: Facts""; ""65. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Intend'""; ""66. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Means'""; ""67. The Morality of the Means Principle: Character""; ""68. A Limited Success""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF PERSONS""; ""INDEX OF SUBJECTS""; |
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| Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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The act itself / / Jonathan Bennett
| The act itself / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 170.4/4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Consequentialism (Ethics)
Act (Philosophy) Human behavior |
| ISBN |
0-19-106899-3
0-19-159707-4 1-281-98087-0 9786611980870 0-19-151894-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. ANALYSIS""; ""1. Morality's Grid""; ""2. What is Analysis?""; ""3. Objections to Philosophical Analysis""; ""4. A Statement of Non-realism""; ""5. Moral Non-realism and Entailment""; ""6. Unifying Theory""; ""7. Levels of Morality""; ""2. FACTS ABOUT BEHAVIOUR""; ""8. How the 'By'-Locution Works""; ""9. 'Act'""; ""10. The Grammar of the 'By'-Locution""; ""11. Intrinsic Behavioural Facts""; ""12. Relational Features of Behaviour""; ""13. Fact Causation""; ""14. 'Itself'""; ""3. MORAL JUDGEMENT""; ""15. First- and Second-Order Morality""
""16. Knowability and First-Order Morality""""17. Concepts of Probability""; ""18. The Probability Principle""; ""19. Morality and Bad Luck""; ""4. MAKING/ALLOWING""; ""20. The Difference between Making and Allowing""; ""21. Trouble with 'Allow' and 'Let'""; ""22. The Bubble Phenomenon""; ""23. Prepositional Matches""; ""24. The Match Phenomenon""; ""5. MORAL SIGNIFICANCE""; ""25. Basic Moral Significance""; ""26. Intuitions about Cases""; ""27. Sometimes but not Always?""; ""28. The Difficulty Excuse""; ""6. POSITIVE/NEGATIVE""; ""29. 'Negative Acts'""; ""30. Negative Relevance"" ""31. A Metric for the Behaviour Space""""32. The Immobility Objection""; ""33. Doubts about the Metric""; ""7. ACTIVE/PASSIVE""; ""34. Agency and 'the Course of Nature'""; ""35. The Two Distinctions as Collaborators""; ""36. Immobility Again""; ""37. What is 'the Course of Nature'?""; ""38. The Non-intervention Principle""; ""8. OTHER ATTEMPTS""; ""39. Changing Conditions""; ""40. Threats and Efforts""; ""41. Making and Causing""; ""42. A Short Lecture on Pragmatics""; ""43. Tighter Meanings for 'Cause'?""; ""44. Other Attempted Analyses""; ""45. The Neutrality of Making/Allowing"" ""9. DEMANDS""""46. Morality as too Demanding: Tight Reins""; ""47. Morality as too Demanding: The Thwarting of Desires""; ""48. Morality of Self-interest""; ""49. Affections""; ""50. The Collapse of the Self-interest Defence""; ""51. Arguing for Making/Allowing Asymmetry""; ""10. ATROCITIES""; ""52. Crises""; ""53. Forms of Absolutism""; ""54. Atrocity and Policy""; ""55. Absolutism and Moral Character""; ""56. Comparative Value of Upshots""; ""57. Other Agents""; ""58. Their Projects""; ""59. Deontology""; ""11. INTENTIONS""; ""60. Intentions and First-Order Morality"" ""61. The Principle of Double Effect""""62. Intentions as Explanatory""; ""63. Delimiting the Means: Acts and Events""; ""64. Delimiting the Means: Facts""; ""65. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Intend'""; ""66. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Means'""; ""67. The Morality of the Means Principle: Character""; ""68. A Limited Success""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF PERSONS""; ""INDEX OF SUBJECTS""; |
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The act itself / / Jonathan Bennett
| The act itself / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
170.4/4
170.44 |
| Soggetto topico |
Consequentialism (Ethics)
Act (Philosophy) Human behavior |
| ISBN |
0-19-106899-3
0-19-159707-4 1-281-98087-0 9786611980870 0-19-151894-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. ANALYSIS""; ""1. Morality's Grid""; ""2. What is Analysis?""; ""3. Objections to Philosophical Analysis""; ""4. A Statement of Non-realism""; ""5. Moral Non-realism and Entailment""; ""6. Unifying Theory""; ""7. Levels of Morality""; ""2. FACTS ABOUT BEHAVIOUR""; ""8. How the 'By'-Locution Works""; ""9. 'Act'""; ""10. The Grammar of the 'By'-Locution""; ""11. Intrinsic Behavioural Facts""; ""12. Relational Features of Behaviour""; ""13. Fact Causation""; ""14. 'Itself'""; ""3. MORAL JUDGEMENT""; ""15. First- and Second-Order Morality""
""16. Knowability and First-Order Morality""""17. Concepts of Probability""; ""18. The Probability Principle""; ""19. Morality and Bad Luck""; ""4. MAKING/ALLOWING""; ""20. The Difference between Making and Allowing""; ""21. Trouble with 'Allow' and 'Let'""; ""22. The Bubble Phenomenon""; ""23. Prepositional Matches""; ""24. The Match Phenomenon""; ""5. MORAL SIGNIFICANCE""; ""25. Basic Moral Significance""; ""26. Intuitions about Cases""; ""27. Sometimes but not Always?""; ""28. The Difficulty Excuse""; ""6. POSITIVE/NEGATIVE""; ""29. 'Negative Acts'""; ""30. Negative Relevance"" ""31. A Metric for the Behaviour Space""""32. The Immobility Objection""; ""33. Doubts about the Metric""; ""7. ACTIVE/PASSIVE""; ""34. Agency and 'the Course of Nature'""; ""35. The Two Distinctions as Collaborators""; ""36. Immobility Again""; ""37. What is 'the Course of Nature'?""; ""38. The Non-intervention Principle""; ""8. OTHER ATTEMPTS""; ""39. Changing Conditions""; ""40. Threats and Efforts""; ""41. Making and Causing""; ""42. A Short Lecture on Pragmatics""; ""43. Tighter Meanings for 'Cause'?""; ""44. Other Attempted Analyses""; ""45. The Neutrality of Making/Allowing"" ""9. DEMANDS""""46. Morality as too Demanding: Tight Reins""; ""47. Morality as too Demanding: The Thwarting of Desires""; ""48. Morality of Self-interest""; ""49. Affections""; ""50. The Collapse of the Self-interest Defence""; ""51. Arguing for Making/Allowing Asymmetry""; ""10. ATROCITIES""; ""52. Crises""; ""53. Forms of Absolutism""; ""54. Atrocity and Policy""; ""55. Absolutism and Moral Character""; ""56. Comparative Value of Upshots""; ""57. Other Agents""; ""58. Their Projects""; ""59. Deontology""; ""11. INTENTIONS""; ""60. Intentions and First-Order Morality"" ""61. The Principle of Double Effect""""62. Intentions as Explanatory""; ""63. Delimiting the Means: Acts and Events""; ""64. Delimiting the Means: Facts""; ""65. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Intend'""; ""66. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Means'""; ""67. The Morality of the Means Principle: Character""; ""68. A Limited Success""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF PERSONS""; ""INDEX OF SUBJECTS""; |
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Bennett Jonathan <1930->
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| Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning from six philosophers [[electronic resource] ] : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett
| Learning from six philosophers [[electronic resource] ] : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 190 |
| Collana | Learning from Six Philosophers (2 Volumes) |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern
Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-159705-8
1-281-94370-3 0-19-152029-2 9786611943707 0-19-152030-6 1-282-23811-6 9786612238116 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""VOLUME 1""; ""Abbreviations""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1: CARTESIAN AND ARISTOTELIAN PHYSICS""; ""1. Aristotelian physics: a quick sketch""; ""2. Aristotle and Descartes: how many fundamental kinds?""; ""3. Aristotle and Descartes: four more differences""; ""4. Aristotle and Descartes: teleology""; ""5. Descartes and two predecessors""; ""6. Aristotle, Descartes and the manifest image""; ""CHAPTER 2: MATTER AND SPACE""; ""7. �Material = extended�: why Descartes wanted this doctrine""; ""8. �Material = extended�: how Descartes defended this""; ""9. Solidity""
""10. Space as extended nothing""""11. Container space""; ""12. Spaces and places""; ""13. Space as a system of relations""; ""14. The fourth view: space as a separator""; ""15. Descartes's �neighbour� account of motion""; ""CHAPTER 3: DESCARTES'S PHYSICS""; ""16. Smallness of parts""; ""17. Subtleness and speed""; ""18. Qualitative variety""; ""19. Compression""; ""20. The integration problem""; ""21. Light and movement loops""; ""22. Other work for loop theory""; ""23. Traction""; ""24. Weight""; ""25. Was Descartes a �new Stoic�?""; ""CHAPTER 4: DESCARTES'S DUALISMS"" ""26. Property-dualism""""27. The indivisibility argument for the �real distinction�""; ""28. �I am unable to distinguish parts in myself�""; ""29. From conception to possibility""; ""30. From possibility to actuality: essences""; ""31. From possibility to actuality: individual identity""; ""32. The Cartesian concept of man""; ""CHAPTER 5: DESCARTES ON CAUSATION""; ""33. Causation and similarity""; ""34. Varying the causal resources principle""; ""35. Tropes""; ""36. Descartes against tropes""; ""37. Descartes's non-endurance doctrine""; ""38. Body on body""; ""39. Mind on body"" ""40. Psychology's invasion of physics""""41. Body on mind: sense perception""; ""42. Mind on mind""; ""CHAPTER 6: PREPARING TO APPROACH SPINOZA""; ""43. How to read the Ethics""; ""44. Spinoza's dualism""; ""45. Spinoza's monism""; ""46. Spinoza's pantheism""; ""47. Spinoza's a priori argument for God's existence""; ""48. Mind-body parallelism""; ""49. Descartes's robot""; ""50. �A queer kind of medium�""; ""CHAPTER 7: ONE EXTENDED SUBSTANCE""; ""51. The thing thought and the independence thought""; ""52. Can a Cartesian body be annihilated?""; ""53. Spinoza sees the problem"" ""54. Spinoza's solution and Curley's challenge""""55. Spinoza on bodies as modes""; ""56. Objections by Curley""; ""57. Spinoza's two levels""; ""58. Bodies and motion""; ""CHAPTER 8: EXPLAINING THE PARALLELISM""; ""59. �Idea of � in Spinoza""; ""60. The official arguments for parallelism""; ""61. The thing-identity thesis: explaining parallelism""; ""62. Trans-attributes qualities""; ""63. A difficulty and a suggested solution""; ""64. Five problems solved""; ""65. A further problem solved: attribute and essence""; ""66. Intellectual limitations?""; ""67. Expressing"" ""CHAPTER 9: EXPLANATORY RATIONALISM"" |
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Bennett Jonathan <1930->
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| Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume [[electronic resource]] . Vol. 2 / / Jonathan Bennett
| Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume [[electronic resource]] . Vol. 2 / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 190 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern - 17th century
Philosophy, Modern - 18th century |
| ISBN | 0-19-159706-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467228803321 |
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Bennett Jonathan <1930->
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| Oxford, : Clarendon, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume [[electronic resource]] . Vol. 2 / / Jonathan Bennett
| Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume [[electronic resource]] . Vol. 2 / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 190 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern - 17th century
Philosophy, Modern - 18th century |
| ISBN | 0-19-159706-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794785103321 |
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Bennett Jonathan <1930->
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| Oxford, : Clarendon, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Learning from six philosophers [[electronic resource] ] : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett
| Learning from six philosophers [[electronic resource] ] : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 190 |
| Collana | Learning from Six Philosophers (2 Volumes) |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern
Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-19-159705-8
1-281-94370-3 0-19-152029-2 9786611943707 0-19-152030-6 1-282-23811-6 9786612238116 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""VOLUME 1""; ""Abbreviations""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1: CARTESIAN AND ARISTOTELIAN PHYSICS""; ""1. Aristotelian physics: a quick sketch""; ""2. Aristotle and Descartes: how many fundamental kinds?""; ""3. Aristotle and Descartes: four more differences""; ""4. Aristotle and Descartes: teleology""; ""5. Descartes and two predecessors""; ""6. Aristotle, Descartes and the manifest image""; ""CHAPTER 2: MATTER AND SPACE""; ""7. �Material = extended�: why Descartes wanted this doctrine""; ""8. �Material = extended�: how Descartes defended this""; ""9. Solidity""
""10. Space as extended nothing""""11. Container space""; ""12. Spaces and places""; ""13. Space as a system of relations""; ""14. The fourth view: space as a separator""; ""15. Descartes's �neighbour� account of motion""; ""CHAPTER 3: DESCARTES'S PHYSICS""; ""16. Smallness of parts""; ""17. Subtleness and speed""; ""18. Qualitative variety""; ""19. Compression""; ""20. The integration problem""; ""21. Light and movement loops""; ""22. Other work for loop theory""; ""23. Traction""; ""24. Weight""; ""25. Was Descartes a �new Stoic�?""; ""CHAPTER 4: DESCARTES'S DUALISMS"" ""26. Property-dualism""""27. The indivisibility argument for the �real distinction�""; ""28. �I am unable to distinguish parts in myself�""; ""29. From conception to possibility""; ""30. From possibility to actuality: essences""; ""31. From possibility to actuality: individual identity""; ""32. The Cartesian concept of man""; ""CHAPTER 5: DESCARTES ON CAUSATION""; ""33. Causation and similarity""; ""34. Varying the causal resources principle""; ""35. Tropes""; ""36. Descartes against tropes""; ""37. Descartes's non-endurance doctrine""; ""38. Body on body""; ""39. Mind on body"" ""40. Psychology's invasion of physics""""41. Body on mind: sense perception""; ""42. Mind on mind""; ""CHAPTER 6: PREPARING TO APPROACH SPINOZA""; ""43. How to read the Ethics""; ""44. Spinoza's dualism""; ""45. Spinoza's monism""; ""46. Spinoza's pantheism""; ""47. Spinoza's a priori argument for God's existence""; ""48. Mind-body parallelism""; ""49. Descartes's robot""; ""50. �A queer kind of medium�""; ""CHAPTER 7: ONE EXTENDED SUBSTANCE""; ""51. The thing thought and the independence thought""; ""52. Can a Cartesian body be annihilated?""; ""53. Spinoza sees the problem"" ""54. Spinoza's solution and Curley's challenge""""55. Spinoza on bodies as modes""; ""56. Objections by Curley""; ""57. Spinoza's two levels""; ""58. Bodies and motion""; ""CHAPTER 8: EXPLAINING THE PARALLELISM""; ""59. �Idea of � in Spinoza""; ""60. The official arguments for parallelism""; ""61. The thing-identity thesis: explaining parallelism""; ""62. Trans-attributes qualities""; ""63. A difficulty and a suggested solution""; ""64. Five problems solved""; ""65. A further problem solved: attribute and essence""; ""66. Intellectual limitations?""; ""67. Expressing"" ""CHAPTER 9: EXPLANATORY RATIONALISM"" |
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Bennett Jonathan <1930->
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| Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning from six philosophers [[electronic resource] ] : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume . Volume 2 / / Jonathan Bennett
| Learning from six philosophers [[electronic resource] ] : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume . Volume 2 / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 190 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern
Modality (Logic) |
| ISBN | 0-19-159706-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- VOLUME 2 -- Preface to Volume 2 -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 21: LOCKEAN IDEAS, OVERVIEW AND FOUNDATIONS -- 154. Locke's explanation of the term 'idea' -- 155. The roles played by Lockean ideas -- 156. How ideas represent: two theories -- 157. A third theory -- 158. Against reification -- 159. Locke and the reification of ideas -- CHAPTER 22: LOCKEAN IDEAS, SOME DETAILS -- 160. Are all Lockean ideas images? -- 161. Locke's two accounts of abstract ideas -- 162. Berkeley's first attack on abstract ideas -- 163. Can images be abstract? -- 164. Berkeley's second attack -- 165. Hume's variant on it -- 166. Abstract ideas and complex ideas -- 167. Ideas and concepts -- 168. Ideas and qualities -- 169. Explaining the idea/quality conflation -- CHAPTER 23: KNOWLEDGE OF NECESSITY -- 170. Innate knowledge: introduction -- 171. Dispositional innate knowledge -- 172. Leibniz on dispositional innatism -- 173. Locke on modal discovery: the relevance problem -- 174. Other relations -- 175. Locke on modal discovery: the necessity problem -- 176. Leibniz's first modal epistemology -- 177. Leibniz's second modal epistemology -- 178. Leibniz's relevance problem -- 179. Innately possessed ideas -- CHAPTER 24: DESCARTES'S THEORY OF MODALITY -- 180. Descartes's voluntarism about modal truths -- 181. The two parts of Descartes's voluntarism: the tandem puzzle -- 182. Omnipotence and small achievements -- 183. Subjective and objective: the bootstraps problem -- 184. Theorizing about the basis of modality: the libertinism threat -- 185. Descartes's handling of the threat -- 186. Can Descartes's God deceive? -- CHAPTER 25: SECONDARY QUALITIES -- 187. Locke's corpuscularianism -- 188. The corpuscularian thesis about what secondary qualities are -- 189. Why the central thesis is true -- 190. A diffference of kind.
191. How Locke defends the central thesis -- 192. How the central thesis solves the problem -- 193. The 'no resemblance' thesis -- 194. Is the central thesis a semantic one? -- CHAPTER 26: LOCKE ON ESSENCES -- 195. Essences of individuals -- 196. The first opinion about real essences -- 197. The second opinion about real essences -- 198. How we classify -- 199. Guessing at real essences -- 200. Meanings and essences -- 201. The nature and source of Locke's failure -- 202. Essences and universals -- CHAPTER 27: SUBSTANCE IN LOCKE -- 203. The substratum theory -- 204. Locke's attitude to it -- 205. How to avoid Locke's impasse -- 206. Ayers's interpretation of 'substance' in Locke -- 207. Two exegetical problems -- CHAPTER 28: BERKELEY AGAINST MATERIALISM -- 208. Foundationalism -- 209. Descartes on the existence of matter -- 210. Locke on the existence of matter -- 211. Berkeley's first attack: materialism clashes with common sense -- 212. Second attack: materialism is not supported by evidence -- 213. Third attack: materialism is certainly false -- 214. The occasionalist escape -- 215. Fourth attack: materialism is conceptually defective -- CHAPTER 29: BERKELEY'S USES OF LOCKE'S WORK -- 216. Why Berkeley cares about abstract ideas -- 217. What Berkeley says about secondary qualities -- 218. What Berkeley says about substratum substance -- CHAPTER 30: BERKELEY ON SPIRITS -- 219. Berkeley on 'spirit' -- 220. Berkeley against solipsism -- 221. Only spirits can be causes -- 222. Berkeley's natural theology -- 223. Human agency -- 224. Other people -- CHAPTER 31: BERKELEIAN SENSIBLE THINGS -- 225. Each sensible thing is a collection of ideas -- 226. Problems with collections -- 227. Berkeley's disrespect towards 'sensible thing' -- 228. The vulgar sense of 'same' -- 229. The continuity of sensible things -- 230. The continuity argument. 231. Idealism and phenomenalism -- 232. Was Berkeley a phenomenalist? -- 233. Phenomenalism and the creation -- 234. Why was Berkeley not a phenomenalist? -- CHAPTER 32: HUME'S 'IDEAS' -- 235. Approaching Hume -- 236. What kind of philosopher was Hume? -- 237. A case-study: the belief in body -- 238. The idea/impression line: distractions -- 239. The idea/impression line: what it is -- 240. An odd problem -- 241. Memory -- 242. The line between simple and complex ideas -- 243. The copy thesis: problems -- 244. The copy thesis: a triple revision -- 245. The missing shade of blue -- 246. Passion and reflection -- CHAPTER 33: HUME AND BELIEF -- 247. Propositional thoughts -- 248. Beliefs and other propositional thoughts -- 249. Looking for an account of belief -- 250. Hume's account of belief -- 251. Belief: feeling versus intellect -- CHAPTER 34: SOME HUMEAN DOCTRINE ABOUT RELATIONS -- 252. The association of ideas: preliminaries -- 253. Three of the four natural relations -- 254. The fourth relation: causation -- 255. The importance of the thesis in Hume's thought -- 256. Seven kinds of relations -- 257. Two dichotomies -- CHAPTER 35: HUME ON CAUSATION, NEGATIVELY -- 258. Observing particular cause-effect pairs -- 259. The gateway to the neighbouring fields -- 260. The status of the principle of universal causation -- 261. Hume's influential error about distinctness of ideas -- 262. Steering around it -- 263. The point of the question about universal causation -- 264. Causal inferences from memory and sensory experience -- 265. Causation and absolute necessity -- 266. The Lockean inference to power -- 267. Four of Hume's objections to the Lockean inference -- 268. A further objection -- CHAPTER 36: HUME ON CAUSATION, POSITIVELY -- 269. The causes of causal inferences -- 270. Hume's best account of causation. 271. The elusiveness of impressions of compulsion -- 272. The absurdity of 'impression of compulsion' -- 273. Was Hume a sceptic about causation? -- 274. The great objection to the 'Humean view of causation' -- 275. Did Hume accept the 'Humean view of causation'? -- CHAPTER 37: HUME ON THE EXISTENCE OF BODIES -- 276. The project in Treatise I.iv.2 -- 277. The role of the senses -- 278. The role of reason -- 279. Imagination: creaking and contradiction -- 280. Imagination: oceans and explanation -- 281. The 'what genus?' question -- 282. Hume's 'system': the identity move -- 283. Hume's 'system': the remainder -- 284. What is wrong with The Belief -- CHAPTER 38: REASON -- 285. Reasoning in man and beast -- 286. Demonstrative reasoning -- 287. A sceptical attack on reason: preliminaries -- 288. A sceptical attack on reason: the argument -- 289. How Hume responds to the attack -- 290. The real importance of Treatise iv.1 -- CHAPTER 39: LOCKE ON DIACHRONIC IDENTITY-JUDGEMENTS -- 291. Atoms and aggregates of them -- 292. Organisms -- 293. Relative identity -- 294. 'Same man' -- 295. Persons -- 296. Persons and substances -- 297. Personal identity -- 298. Locke's analysis is too weak -- 299. Locke's analysis is too strong -- 300. People as animals -- 301. 'A forensic concept' -- 302. Same person, same substance? -- CHAPTER 40: HUME AND LEIBNIZ ON PERSONAL IDENTITY -- 303. Diachronic identity statements: Hume's approach and Locke's -- 304. Optimal diachronic identity statements -- 305. Hume tries to explain some of Locke's results -- 306. Hume on personal identity: negative -- 307. Hume on personal identity: positive -- 308. Pears on omitting the body -- 309. Hume's recantation -- 310. Coda: Hume and Berkeley on the passage of time -- 311. Leibniz on what a substance is -- 312. Leibniz and Hume compared -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- A -- B -- C. D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T. |
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Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett
| Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 190 |
| Collana | Learning from Six Philosophers (2 Volumes) |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Modern
Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-19-159705-8
1-281-94370-3 0-19-152029-2 9786611943707 0-19-152030-6 1-282-23811-6 9786612238116 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""VOLUME 1""; ""Abbreviations""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1: CARTESIAN AND ARISTOTELIAN PHYSICS""; ""1. Aristotelian physics: a quick sketch""; ""2. Aristotle and Descartes: how many fundamental kinds?""; ""3. Aristotle and Descartes: four more differences""; ""4. Aristotle and Descartes: teleology""; ""5. Descartes and two predecessors""; ""6. Aristotle, Descartes and the manifest image""; ""CHAPTER 2: MATTER AND SPACE""; ""7. �Material = extended�: why Descartes wanted this doctrine""; ""8. �Material = extended�: how Descartes defended this""; ""9. Solidity""
""10. Space as extended nothing""""11. Container space""; ""12. Spaces and places""; ""13. Space as a system of relations""; ""14. The fourth view: space as a separator""; ""15. Descartes's �neighbour� account of motion""; ""CHAPTER 3: DESCARTES'S PHYSICS""; ""16. Smallness of parts""; ""17. Subtleness and speed""; ""18. Qualitative variety""; ""19. Compression""; ""20. The integration problem""; ""21. Light and movement loops""; ""22. Other work for loop theory""; ""23. Traction""; ""24. Weight""; ""25. Was Descartes a �new Stoic�?""; ""CHAPTER 4: DESCARTES'S DUALISMS"" ""26. Property-dualism""""27. The indivisibility argument for the �real distinction�""; ""28. �I am unable to distinguish parts in myself�""; ""29. From conception to possibility""; ""30. From possibility to actuality: essences""; ""31. From possibility to actuality: individual identity""; ""32. The Cartesian concept of man""; ""CHAPTER 5: DESCARTES ON CAUSATION""; ""33. Causation and similarity""; ""34. Varying the causal resources principle""; ""35. Tropes""; ""36. Descartes against tropes""; ""37. Descartes's non-endurance doctrine""; ""38. Body on body""; ""39. Mind on body"" ""40. Psychology's invasion of physics""""41. Body on mind: sense perception""; ""42. Mind on mind""; ""CHAPTER 6: PREPARING TO APPROACH SPINOZA""; ""43. How to read the Ethics""; ""44. Spinoza's dualism""; ""45. Spinoza's monism""; ""46. Spinoza's pantheism""; ""47. Spinoza's a priori argument for God's existence""; ""48. Mind-body parallelism""; ""49. Descartes's robot""; ""50. �A queer kind of medium�""; ""CHAPTER 7: ONE EXTENDED SUBSTANCE""; ""51. The thing thought and the independence thought""; ""52. Can a Cartesian body be annihilated?""; ""53. Spinoza sees the problem"" ""54. Spinoza's solution and Curley's challenge""""55. Spinoza on bodies as modes""; ""56. Objections by Curley""; ""57. Spinoza's two levels""; ""58. Bodies and motion""; ""CHAPTER 8: EXPLAINING THE PARALLELISM""; ""59. �Idea of � in Spinoza""; ""60. The official arguments for parallelism""; ""61. The thing-identity thesis: explaining parallelism""; ""62. Trans-attributes qualities""; ""63. A difficulty and a suggested solution""; ""64. Five problems solved""; ""65. A further problem solved: attribute and essence""; ""66. Intellectual limitations?""; ""67. Expressing"" ""CHAPTER 9: EXPLANATORY RATIONALISM"" |
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A philosophical guide to conditionals [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Bennett
| A philosophical guide to conditionals [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Bennett |
| Autore | Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 pages) |
| Disciplina | 160 |
| Soggetto topico | Conditionals (Logic) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-159704-X
9786612007224 1-282-00722-X 0-19-153174-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction --2. The Material Condition: Grice --3. The Material Condition: Jackson --4. The Equation --5. The Equation Attacked --6. The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals --7. Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values --8. Uses of Indicative Conditionals --9. The Logic of Indicative Conditionals --10. Subjunctive Conditionals: First Steps --11. The Competition for 'Closest' --12. Unrolling from the Antecedent Time --13. Forks --14. Reflections on Legality --15. Truth at the Actual World --16. Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability --17. 'Even If ... ' --18. Backward Subjunctive Conditionals --19. Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow --20. Support Theories --21. The Need for Worlds --22. Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional --23. Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional. |
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