Practical Tortoise Raising

And Other Philosophical Essays
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-966176-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can try to understand what we say in terms of what we are doing when we say it. He investigates how propositions interact with linguistic expressions whose primary function is identified in terms of actions performed in expressing commitments with them, when those commitments are thought of in practical rather than descriptive terms. He broadens his investigation from semantic questions to wider issues of pluralism, pragmatism, philosophy of mind, and the nature of practical reasoning.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackburn, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. Language and Epistemology

- 1: From Doing to Saying

- 2: Success Semantics

- 3: Practical Tortoise Raising

- 4: Wittgenstein's Irrealism

- 5: Circles, Finks, Smells and Biconditionals

- 6: The Absolute Conception

- 7: Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog

- 8: The Majesty of Reason

- II. Practical Philosophy and Ethics

- 9: Truth, Goodness and Beauty

- 10: Dilemmas, Dithering, Plumping, Grief

- 11: Group Minds and Expressive Harm

- 12: Trust, Cooperation, and Human Psychology

- 13: Must we Weep for Sentimentalism?

- 14: Morality and Thick Concepts

- 15: Perspectives, Fiction, Error, Play

- 16: Fiction and Conviction

Über Autor(innen)

Blackburn, Simon
Simon Blackburn is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.