Passions and Projections

Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872317-2
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers. Blackburn is best known to the general public for his attempts to make philosophy accessible to those with little or no formal training, but in professional circles his reputation is based on a lifetime pursuit of his distinctive version of a projectivist and anti-realist research program. As he sees things, we must always try first to understand and explain what we are doing when we think and talk as we do. This research program reaches into nearly all of the main areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. The books and articles he has written provide us with perhaps the most comprehensive statement and defense of projectivism and anti-realism since Hume. The essays collected here document the range and influence of Blackburn's work. They reveal, among other things, the resourcefulness of his distinctive brand of philosophical pragmatism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Robert N.

Smith, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Apologia pro Vita Sua

- Part One: Metaphysics and Epistemology

- 1: Louise Antony: Defending Folk Psychology: The Limits of Coalitions

- 2: Helen Beebee: Causation, Projection, Inference, and Agency

- 3: Frank Jackson: Singular Belief

- 4: C. S. I. Jenkins: What Quasi-Realists Can Say About Knowledge

- 5: Robert Kraut: The Metaphysics of Artistic Expression: A Case Study in Projectivism

- 6: Rae Langton: The Impossible Necessity of 'Filling in Space'

- 7: Cynthia Macdonald: What is Colour? A Defense of Colour Primitivism

- 8: Huw Price: From Quasi-Realism to Global Expressivism--and Back Again?

- Part Two: Metaethics and Moral Psychology

- 9: Jamie Dreier: Another World: The Metaethics and Metametaethics of Reasons Fundamentalism

- 10: Allan Gibbard: Improving Sensibilities

- 11: Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons: Modest Quasi-Realism and the Problem of Deep Moral Error

- 12: Peter Railton: Just How Do Passions Rule? The (More) Compleat Humean

- 13: Mark Schroeder: Higher-Order Attitudes, Frege's Abyss, and the Truth in Propositions

- 14: R. Jay Wallace: The Fugitive Thought: Blackburn on Reasons

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Johnson is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and was a student of Blackburn's at UNC Chapel Hill in the 1990s.

Michael Smith is McCosh Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Princeton University; he was a student of Blackburn's at Oxford University in the 1980s.