Metaphysics and the Good

Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-954268-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 792 g

Throughout his philosophical career at Michigan, UCLA, Yale, and Oxford, Robert Merrihew Adams's wide-ranging contributions have deeply shaped the structure of debates in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, and ethics. Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams provides, for the first time, a collection of original essays by leading philosophers dedicated to exploring many of the facets of Adams's thought, a philosophical outlook that combines Christian theism, neo-Platonism, moral realism, metaphysical idealism, and a commitment to both historical sensitivity and rigorous analytic engagement. Tied together by their aim of exploring, expanding, and experimenting with Adams's views, these eleven essays are coupled with an intellectual autobiography by Adams himself that was commissioned especially for this volume. As the introduction to the volume explains, the purpose of Metaphysics and the Good is to explore Adams's work in the very manner that he prescribes for understanding the ideas of others. By experimenting with Adams's conclusions, "pulling a string here to see what moves over there, so to speak", as Adams puts it, our authors throw into greater relief what makes Adams such an original and stimulating philosopher. In doing so, these essays contribute not only to the exploration of Adams's continuing interests, but they also advance original and important philosophical insights of their own.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newlands, Samuel

Jorgensen, Larry M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Robert Merrihew Adams: A Philosophical Autobiography

- 2: Dean Zimmerman: Yet Another Anti-Molinist Argument

- 3: Michael Nelson: The Contingency of Existence

- 4: Derk Pereboom: Consciousness and Introspective Inaccuracy

- 5: Houston Smit: Kant on Apriority and the Spontaneity of Cognition

- 6: R. C. Sleigh, Jr.: Moral Necessity in Leibniz's Account of Human Freedom

- 7: Marleen Rozemond: Leibniz on Final Causation

- 8: Paul Hoffman: Does Efficient Causation Presuppose Final Causation? Aquinas vs. Early Modern Mechanism

- 9: Allen Wood: Herder and Kant on History: Their Enlightenment Faith

- 10: Susan Wolf: Moral Obligations and Social Commands

- 11: Jeffrey Stout: Adams on the Nature of Obligation

- 12: Shelly Kagan: The Grasshopper, Aristotle, Bob Adams, and Me

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Newlands is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Larry M. Jorgensen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University.