Possibility of Philosophical Understanding

Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud
Herausgeber: Bridges, Jason; Wong, Wai-Hung; Kolodny, Niko

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Produktbeschreibung

Barry Stroud's work has had a profound impact on a very wide array of philosophical topics, including epistemological skepticism, the nature of logical necessity, the interpretation of Hume, the interpretation of Wittgenstein, the possibility of transcendental arguments, and the metaphysical status of color and value. And yet there has heretofore been no book-length treatment of his work. The current collection aims to redress this gap, with 13 essays on Stroud's work by a diverse group of contributors including some of his most distinguished interlocutors and promising recent students. All but one essay is new to this volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780195381658
• ISBN-10: 0195381653
• Artikelnr.: 33372040

Autorenporträt

Bridges: Philosophy, University of Chicago; Kolodny: Philosophy, UC Berkeley; Wong: Philosophy, CSU Chico

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: The Question to Understand Philosophy
* 2. Rethinking Hume's Second Thoughts about Personal Identity
* Skepticism and Knowledge
* 3. External World Scepticism and the Structure of Epistemic
Entitlement
* 4. Stroud and Pyrrhonism
* 5. Transcendental and Circular Reasoning
* 6. Stroud's Proposal for Removing the Threat of Skepticism
* 7. What the Skeptic Still Can't Learn from How We Use the Word 'Know'
* Meaning and Reason
* 8. Inside and Outside Language: Stroud's Nonreductionism about
Meaning
* 9. Dispositions and Rational Explanation
* Subjectivism and Reality
* 10. Colours as Secondary Qualities
* 11. Intelligible Causation
* 12. Unsettling Subjectivism about Value
* 13. Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Time