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Action, ethics, and responsibility [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
| Action, ethics, and responsibility [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Responsibility
Ethics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-262-28907-5
1-282-97838-1 9786612978388 0-262-28927-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Action, ethics, and responsibility : a framework / Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein -- A reappraisal of the doctrine of doing and allowing / David K. Chan -- Killing John to save Mary : a defense of the moral distinction between killing and letting die / Helen Frowe -- Making up one's mind / Randolph Clarke -- Conscious intentions / Alfred R. Mele -- Locke's compatibilism : suspension of desire or suspension of determinism? / Charles T. Wolfe -- The fall of the mind argument and some lessons about freedom / E.J. Coffman and Donald Smith -- Selective hard compatibilism / Paul Russell -- Manipulation and guidance control : a reply to Long / John Martin Fischer -- Free will : some bad news / Saul Smilansky -- Responsibility and practical reason / George Sher -- The metaphysics of collective agency / Todd Jones -- Moral judgment and volitional incapacity / Antti Kauppinen -- "So sick he deserves it" : desert, dangerousness, and character in the context of capital sentencing / Robert F. Schopp -- Types of terror bombing and shifting responsibility / Frances Kamm. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458632003321 |
| Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
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Action, ethics, and responsibility / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
| Action, ethics, and responsibility / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico | Responsibility |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-28907-5
1-282-97838-1 9786612978388 0-262-28927-X |
| Classificazione | 08.38 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Action, ethics, and responsibility : a framework / Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein -- A reappraisal of the doctrine of doing and allowing / David K. Chan -- Killing John to save Mary : a defense of the moral distinction between killing and letting die / Helen Frowe -- Making up one's mind / Randolph Clarke -- Conscious intentions / Alfred R. Mele -- Locke's compatibilism : suspension of desire or suspension of determinism? / Charles T. Wolfe -- The fall of the mind argument and some lessons about freedom / E.J. Coffman and Donald Smith -- Selective hard compatibilism / Paul Russell -- Manipulation and guidance control : a reply to Long / John Martin Fischer -- Free will : some bad news / Saul Smilansky -- Responsibility and practical reason / George Sher -- The metaphysics of collective agency / Todd Jones -- Moral judgment and volitional incapacity / Antti Kauppinen -- "So sick he deserves it" : desert, dangerousness, and character in the context of capital sentencing / Robert F. Schopp -- Types of terror bombing and shifting responsibility / Frances Kamm. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791657803321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Action, ethics, and responsibility / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
| Action, ethics, and responsibility / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Responsibility
Ethics |
| ISBN |
0-262-28907-5
1-282-97838-1 9786612978388 0-262-28927-X |
| Classificazione | 08.38 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Action, ethics, and responsibility : a framework / Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein -- A reappraisal of the doctrine of doing and allowing / David K. Chan -- Killing John to save Mary : a defense of the moral distinction between killing and letting die / Helen Frowe -- Making up one's mind / Randolph Clarke -- Conscious intentions / Alfred R. Mele -- Locke's compatibilism : suspension of desire or suspension of determinism? / Charles T. Wolfe -- The fall of the mind argument and some lessons about freedom / E.J. Coffman and Donald Smith -- Selective hard compatibilism / Paul Russell -- Manipulation and guidance control : a reply to Long / John Martin Fischer -- Free will : some bad news / Saul Smilansky -- Responsibility and practical reason / George Sher -- The metaphysics of collective agency / Todd Jones -- Moral judgment and volitional incapacity / Antti Kauppinen -- "So sick he deserves it" : desert, dangerousness, and character in the context of capital sentencing / Robert F. Schopp -- Types of terror bombing and shifting responsibility / Frances Kamm. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827706003321 |
| Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457768003321 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781929703321 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826555203321 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
| Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09908-6
9786612099083 0-262-26976-7 1-4294-9238-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452296503321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
| Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09908-6
9786612099083 0-262-26976-7 1-4294-9238-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777770703321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
| Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-282-09908-6
9786612099083 0-262-26976-7 1-4294-9238-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818475203321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Knowledge and skepticism / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
| Knowledge and skepticism / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Skepticism |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-63817-3
9786612638176 0-262-26578-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Framing Knowledge and Skepticism; I Knowledge; 1 Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence; 2 Theorizing Justification; 3 Truth Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge; 4 Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertibility Maneuvers; 5 Knowledge In and Out of Context; 6 Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context-Sensitivity of 'Knows'; 7 Locke's Account of Sensitive Knowledge; 8 Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience; 9 Knowing It Hurts; 10 Reasoning Defeasibly about Probabilities; II Skepticism
11 Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian12 Is There a Reason for Skepticism?; 13 Skepticism Aside; 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism; Contributors; Index; Insert |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458350903321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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