Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

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Resistance to Evidence

出版日：2025/08/21 作者：Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) 出版社：Cambridge University Press 裝訂：平裝

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Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction：A View on Fictionality

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Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction：A View on Fictionality

出版日：2025/07/31 作者：Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona) 出版社：Cambridge University Press 裝訂：精裝

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The Neural Structure of Consciousness

出版日：2025/06/30 作者：Joseph (University of Nebraska Mendola Lincoln) 出版社：Cambridge University Press 裝訂：精裝

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Resistance to Evidence

出版日：2024/02/29 作者：Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) 出版社：Cambridge University Press 裝訂：精裝

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Sharing Knowledge：A Functionalist Account of Assertion

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Sharing Knowledge：A Functionalist Account of Assertion

出版日：2023/10/31 作者：Christoph Kelp (University of Glasgow); Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) 出版社：Cambridge University Press 裝訂：平裝

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Normative Reasons：Between Reasoning and Explanation

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Normative Reasons：Between Reasoning and Explanation

出版日：2022/07/31 作者：Artūrs Logins 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Reasons matter greatly to us in both ordinary and theoretical contexts, being connected to two fundamental normative concerns: figuring out what we should do and what attitudes to have, and understanding the duties and responsibilities that apply to us. This book introduces and critiques most of the contemporary theories of normative reasons considerations that speak in favor of an action, belief, or emotion - to explore how they work. Artūrs Logins develops and defends a new theory: the Erotetic view of reasons, according to which normative reasons are appropriate answers to normative why questions (Why should I do this?). This theory draws on evidence of how why-questions work in informal logic, language and philosophy of science. The resulting view is able to avoid the problems of previous accounts, while retaining all of their attractive features, and it also suggests exciting directions for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Sharing Knowledge：A Functionalist Account of Assertion

出版日：2021/11/30 作者：Christoph Kelp 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Assertion is the central vehicle for the sharing of knowledge. Whether knowledge is shared successfully often depends on the quality of assertions: good assertions lead to successful knowledge sharing, while bad ones don't. In Sharing Knowledge, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion investigate the relation between knowledge sharing and assertion, and develop an account of what it is to assert well. More specifically, they argue that the function of assertion is to share knowledge with others. It is this function that supports a central norm of assertion according to which a good assertion is one that has the disposition to generate knowledge in others. The book uses this functionalist approach to motivate further norms of assertion on both the speaker and the hearer side and investigates ramifications of this view for other questions about assertion.

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Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

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Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

出版日：2015/10/01 作者：Richard Fumerton 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philos

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Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

出版日：2013/12/31 作者：Richard Fumerton 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philos

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The Primitivist Theory of Truth

出版日：2013/11/18 作者：Jamin Asay 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Jamin Asay's book offers a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', with a comprehensive articulation and defence of primitivism, the view that truth is a fundamental and indefinable concept. Often associated with Frege and the early Russell and Moore, primitivism has been largely absent from the larger conversation surrounding the nature of truth. Asay defends primitivism by drawing on a range of arguments from metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of logic, and navigates between correspondence theory and deflationism by reviving analytic philosophy's first theory of truth. In its exploration of the role that truth plays in our cognitive and linguistic lives, The Primitivist Theory of Truth offers an account of not just the nature of truth, but the foundational role that truth plays in our conceptual scheme. It will be valuable for students and scholars of philosophy of language and of metaphysics.

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Familiar Objects and Their Shadows

出版日：2013/09/19 作者：Crawford L. Elder 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion of enduring objects that persist across changes. Crawford L. Elder argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features of familiar objects themselves. He contends that sceptical metaphysicians are thus employing shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist. He argues that the shadows are indeed really there, because their sources - familiar objects - are mind-independently real.

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Goodness and Justice：A Consequentialist Moral Theory

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Goodness and Justice：A Consequentialist Moral Theory

出版日：2011/07/14 作者：Joseph Mendola 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism's familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism. When, as is common, someone is engaged in conflicting group acts, it requires that one perform one's role in that group act that is most beneficent. The theory also holds that overall value is distribution-sensitive, ceding maximum weight to the well-being of the worst-off sections of sentient lives. It is properly congruent with commonsense intuition and required by the true metaphysics of value, by the unconstituted natural good found in our world.

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Probability and Evidence

出版日：2011/06/16 作者：Paul Horwich 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

In this volume, which was originally published in 1982, Paul Horwich presents a clear and unified approach to a number of problems in the philosophy of science. He diagnoses the failure of other attempts to resolve them as stemming from a too-rigid, all-or-nothing conception of belief, and adopts instead a Bayesian strategy, emphasising the degree of confidence to which we are entitled the light of scientific evidence. This probabilistic approach, he argues, yields a more complete understanding of the assumptions and procedures characteristic of scientific reasoning. It also accounts for the merits of simplicity, severe tests and surprising predictions, and provides a way in which the dispute between the realist and instrumentalist views of science might be resolved. The result is a crisp, well-focused contribution to the philosophy of science. The elaboration of an important conception of probability will stimulate anyone with an interest in the field.

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Familiar Objects and Their Shadows

出版日：2011/03/31 作者：Crawford L. Elder 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion of enduring objects that persist across changes. Crawford L. Elder argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features of familiar objects themselves. He contends that sceptical metaphysicians are thus employing shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist. He argues that the shadows are indeed really there, because their sources - familiar objects - are mind-independently real.

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Common Sense:A Contemporary Defense

出版日：2010/06/10 作者：Noah Lemos 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

In this 2004 book, Noah Lemos presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition, the view that we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of that tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm. For a long time common sense philosophers have been subject to two main objections: that they fail to give any non-circular argument for the reliability of memory and perception; and that they pick out instances of knowledge without knowing a criterion for knowledge. Lemos defends the appeal to what we ordinarily think we know in both epistemology and ethics and thus rejects the charge that common sense is dogmatic, unphilosophical or question-begging. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.

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Living with Uncertainty：The Moral Significance of Ignorance

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Living with Uncertainty：The Moral Significance of Ignorance

出版日：2008/09/11 作者：Michael J. Zimmerman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Every choice we make is set against a background of massive ignorance about our past, our future, our circumstances, and ourselves. Philosophers are divided on the moral significance of such ignorance. Some say that it has a direct impact on how we ought to behave - the question of what our moral obligations are; others deny this, claiming that it only affects how we ought to be judged in light of the behaviour in which we choose to engage - the question of what responsibility we bear for our choices. Michael Zimmerman claims that our ignorance has an important bearing on both questions, and offers an account of moral obligation and moral responsibility that is sharply at odds with the prevailing wisdom. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ethics.

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Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism

出版日：2007/12/20 作者：Marcel S. Lieberman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Despite the importance of commitment in moral and political philosophy, there has hitherto been little extended analysis of it. Marcel Lieberman examines the conditions under which commitment is possible, and offers at the same time an indirect argument for moral realism. He argues that realist evaluative beliefs are functionally required for commitment - especially regarding its role in self-understanding - and since it is only within a realist framework that such beliefs make sense, realism about values is a condition for the possibility of commitment itself. His ambitious study addresses questions that are of great interest to analytic philosophers but also makes many connections with continental philosophy and with folk psychology, sociology and cognitive science, and will be seen as a distinctive intervention in the debate about moral realism.

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Language in the World：A Philosophical Enquiry

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Language in the World：A Philosophical Enquiry

出版日：2007/12/20 作者：M. J. Cresswell 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining, for each sentence, which possible worlds would make the sentence true, and which would make it false. M. J. Cresswell argues that the non-semantic facts on which such semantic facts supervene are facts about the causal interactions between the linguistic behaviour of speakers and the facts in the world that they are speaking about, and that the kind of causation involved is best analysed using David Lewis's account of causation in terms of counterfactuals. Although philosophers have worked on the question of the connection between meaning and linguistic behaviour, it has mostly been without regard to the work done in possible-world semantics and Language in the World is a book-length examination of this problem.

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The Metaphysics of Everyday Life：An Essay in Practical Realism

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The Metaphysics of Everyday Life：An Essay in Practical Realism

出版日：2007/11/22 作者：Lynne Rudder Baker 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Lynne Rudder Baker presents and defends a unique account of the material world: the Constitution View. In contrast to leading metaphysical views that take everyday things to be either non-existent or reducible to micro-objects, the Constitution View construes familiar things as irreducible parts of reality. Although they are ultimately constituted by microphysical particles, everyday objects are neither identical to, nor reducible to, the aggregates of microphysical particles that constitute them. The result is genuine ontological diversity: people, bacteria, donkeys, mountains and microscopes are fundamentally different kinds of things - all constituted by, but not identical to, aggregates of particles. Baker supports her account with discussions of non-reductive causation, vagueness, mereology, artefacts, three-dimensionalism, ontological novelty, ontological levels and emergence. The upshot is a unified ontological theory of the entire material world that irreducibly contains people

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Putting Skeptics in their Place：The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry

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Putting Skeptics in their Place：The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry

出版日：2007/11/05 作者：John Greco 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This book, first published in 2000, is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco delineates three main theses: that a number of historically prominent skeptical arguments make no obvious mistake, and therefore cannot be easily dismissed; that the analysis of skeptical arguments is philosophically useful and important, and should therefore have a central place in the methodology of philosophy; and that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt an externalist, reliabilist epistemology. Greco argues that the importance of skeptical arguments is methodological. It is further argued that taking skeptical arguments seriously requires us to adopt a version of 'virtue epistemology', or a theory of knowledge that makes intellectual virtue central in the analysis of knowledge. The above methodology has consequences for moral and religious epistemology; in particular, a theory of moral perception is defended.

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Object and Property

出版日：2007/10/25 作者：Arda Denkel 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Professor Arda Denkel argues here that objects are nothing more than bundles of properties. From this point of view he tackles some central questions of ontology: how is an object distinct from others; how does it remain the same while it changes through time? A second contention is that properties are particular entities restricted to the objects they inhabit. The appearance that they exist generally, in a multitude of things, is due to the way we conceptualize them. Other problems dealt with include how objects bear similarities by belonging to the same kinds, and how change in them is caused. Denkel defends a thoroughgoing particularism and offers purely qualitative accounts of individuation, identity, essences and matter. Throughout, the main alternative positions are surveyed, and the relevant historical background is traced.

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Making Moral Sense：Beyond Habermas and Gauthier

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Making Moral Sense：Beyond Habermas and Gauthier

出版日：2007/10/25 作者：Logi Gunnarsson 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Is it rational to be moral? Can moral disputes be settled rationally? Which criteria determine what we have a good reason to do? In this innovative book, Logi Gunnarsson takes issue with the assumption made by many philosophers faced with the problem of reconciling moral norms with a scientific world view, namely that morality must be offered a non-moral justification based on a formal concept of rationality. He argues that the criteria for the rationality of an action are irreducibly substantive, rather than purely formal, and that assuming that morality must be given a non-moral justification amounts to a distortion of both rationality and morality. His discussion includes substantial critical engagement with major thinkers from two very different philosophical traditions, and is notable for its clear and succinct account of Habermas' discourse ethics. It will appeal to anyone interested in practical reason and the rational credentials of morality.

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Substance among Other Categories

出版日：2007/08/27 作者：Joshua Hoffman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of what an individual substance is in terms of independence from other beings. In the process many other important ontological categories are explored: property, event, space, time. The authors show why alternative theories of substance fail, and go on to defend the intelligibility (though not the existence) of interacting spiritual and material substances.

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The Concept of Moral Obligation

出版日：2007/08/20 作者：Michael J. Zimmerman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

The principal aim of this book is to develop and defend an analysis of the concept of moral obligation. The analysis is neutral regarding competing substantive theories of obligation, whether consequentialist or deontological in character. What it seeks to do is generate solutions to a range of philosophical problems concerning obligation and its application. Amongst these problems are deontic paradoxes, the supersession of obligation, conditional obligation, prima facie obligation, actualism and possibilism, dilemmas, supererogation, and cooperation. By virtue of its normative neutrality, the analysis provides a theoretical framework within which competing theories of obligation can be developed and assessed. This study is a major contribution to metaethics that will be of particular interest to all philosophers concerned with normative ethical theory.

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Deontic Morality and Control

出版日：2007/08/20 作者：Ishtiyaque Haji 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over their actions. But it is morally obligatory, right or wrong for one to perform some action only if one has control over it. Hence, no one ever performs an action that is morally obligatory, right or wrong. The author defends the view that this dilemma can be evaded but not in a way traditional compatibilists about freedom and moral responsibility will find congenial. For moral obligation is indeed incompatible with determinism but not with indeterminism. He concludes with an argument to the effect that, if determinism is true and no action is morally obligatory, right or wrong, then our world would be considerably morally impoverished as several sorts of moral appraisal would be unjustified.

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Meaning, Expression and Thought

出版日：2007/08/20 作者：Wayne A. Davis 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean programme, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. But Grice's own formulations are rejected and alternatives developed. The foundations of the expression theory are explored at length, and the author develops the theory of thought as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon distinct from belief and desire, argues for the thesis that thoughts have parts, and identifies ideas or concepts with parts of thoughts. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of language.

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Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others

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Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others

出版日：2007/08/20 作者：Richard Foley 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various authorities, such as a recognized expert or a social tradition? In this provocative account of intellectual trust and authority, Richard Foley argues that it can be reasonable to have intellectual trust in oneself even though it is not possible to provide a defence of the reliability of one's faculties, methods and opinions that does not beg the question. Moreover, he shows how this account of intellectual self-trust can be used to understand the degree to which it is reasonable to rely on alternative authorities. This book will be of interest to advanced students and professionals working in the fields of philosophy and the social sciences as well as anyone looking for a unified account of the issues at the centre of intellectual trust.

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The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language

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The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language

出版日：2007/08/20 作者：J. Christopher Maloney 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Christopher Maloney offers an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought. He posits the idea that thinking involves the processing of mental representations that take the form of sentences in a covert language encoded in the mind. The theory relies upon traditional categories of psychology, including such notions as belief and desire. It also draws upon and thus inherits some of the problems of artificial intelligence which it attempts to answer, including what bestows meaning or content upon a thought and what distinguishes genuine from simulated thought.

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Belief Policies

出版日：2007/08/16 作者：Paul Helm 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

How do we form and modify our beliefs about the world? It is widely accepted that what we believe is determined by evidence, and is therefore not directly under our control; but according to what criteria is the credibility of the evidence established? Professor Helm argues that no theory of knowledge is complete without standards for accepting and rejecting evidence as belief-worthy. These standards, or belief-policies, are not themselves determined by evidence, but determine what counts as credible evidence. Unlike single beliefs, belief-policies are directly subject to the will, and therefore to the possibility of weakness of will and self-deception. Helm sets out to interpret standard epistemological positions in terms of belief-policies, and to illustrate their operation in the history of philosophy. He establishes connections between belief-policies, responsibility for beliefs, and the desirability of toleration, before reassessing fideism in the light of his argument.

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Seeing through Self-Deception

出版日：2007/08/16 作者：Annette Barnes 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

What is it to deceive someone? And how is it possible to deceive oneself? Does self-deception require that people be taken in by a deceitful strategy that they know is deceitful? The literature is divided between those who argue that self-deception is intentional and those who argue that it is non-intentional. In this study, Annette Barnes offers a challenge to both the standard characterization of other-deception and characterizations of self-deception, examining the available explanations and exploring such questions as the self-deceiver's false consciousness, bias and the irrationality and objectionability of self-deception. She arrives at a non-intentional account of self-deception that is deeper and more complete than alternative non-intentional accounts and avoids the reduction of self-deceptive belief to wishful belief.

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Emotional Reason：Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value

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Emotional Reason：Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value

出版日：2007/08/16 作者：Bennett W. Helm 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm argues that standard philosophical answers to these questions presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and conation that undermines an adequate understanding of values and their connection to motivation and deliberation. Rejecting this distinction, Helm argues that emotions are fundamental to any account of value and motivation, and he develops a detailed alternative theory both of emotions, desires and evaluative judgements and of their rational interconnections. The result is an innovative theory of practical rationality and of how we can control not only what we do but also what we value and who we are as persons.

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Brute Rationality：Normativity and Human Action

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Brute Rationality：Normativity and Human Action

出版日：2007/08/16 作者：Joshua Gert 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This book presents an account of normative practical reasons and the way in which they contribute to the rationality of action. Rather than simply 'counting in favour of' actions, normative reasons play two logically distinct roles: requiring action and justifying action. The distinction between these two roles explains why some reasons do not seem relevant to the rational status of an action unless the agent cares about them, while other reasons retain all their force regardless of the agent's attitude. It also explains why the class of rationally permissible action is wide enough to contain not only all morally required action, but also much selfish and immoral action. The book will appeal to a range of readers interested in practical reason in particular, and moral theory more generally.

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A Physicalist Manifesto：Thoroughly Modern Materialism

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A Physicalist Manifesto：Thoroughly Modern Materialism

出版日：2007/08/06 作者：Andrew Melnyk 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best formulated by appeal to a carefully worked-out notion of realization, rather than supervenience; that, so formulated, physicalism must be importantly reductionist; that it need not repudiate causal and explanatory claims framed in non-physical language; and that it has the a posteriori epistemic status of a broad-scope scientific hypothesis. Two concluding chapters argue in detail that contemporary science provides no significant empirical evidence against physicalism and some considerable evidence for it. Written in a brisk, candid and exceptionally clear style, this 2003 book should appeal to professionals and students in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of science.

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Mind and Supermind

出版日：2007/07/26 作者：Keith Frankish 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Mind and Supermind offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. Keith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which have different properties and support different kinds of mental explanation. Building on this claim, he develops a picture of the human mind as a two-level structure, consisting of a basic mind and a supermind, and shows how the resulting account sheds light on a number of puzzling phenomena and helps to vindicate folk psychology. Topics discussed include the function of conscious thought, the cognitive role of natural language, the relation between partial and flat-out belief, the possibility of active belief formation, and the nature of akrasia, self-deception and first-person authority. This book will be valuable for philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists.

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Scientific Essentialism

出版日：2007/07/23 作者：Brian Ellis 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said to operate, and are therefore not independent of them. These laws are not imposed upon the world by God, the forces of nature or anything else, but rather are immanent in the world. Ellis argues that ours is a dynamic world consisting of more or less transient objects which are constantly interacting with each other, and whose identities depend on their roles in these processes. Natural objects must behave as they do, because to do otherwise would be contrary to their natures. The laws of nature are, therefore, metaphysically necessary, and consequently, there are necessary connections between events. Brian Ellis calls for the rejection of the theory of Humean Supervenience and an implementation of a new kind of realism in philosophical analysis.

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Morality in a Natural World：Selected Essays in Metaethics

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Morality in a Natural World：Selected Essays in Metaethics

出版日：2007/07/16 作者：David Copp 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

The central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or seriously compromising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural World, David Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism that can accommodate the normativity of morality. Moral naturalism is often thought to face special metaphysical, epistemological, and semantic problems as well as the difficulty in accounting for normativity. In the ten essays included in this volume, Copp defends solutions to these problems. Three of the essays are new, while seven have previously been published. All of them are concerned with the viability of naturalistic and realistic accounts of the nature of morality, or, more generally, with the viability of naturalistic accounts of reasons.

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The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

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The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

出版日：2007/07/16 作者：Jonathan L. Kvanvig 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology properly conceived cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge. He also questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in epistemology, namely that knowledge is always more valuable than the value of its subparts. Taking Platos' Meno as a starting point of his discussion, Kvanvig tackles the different arguments about the value of knowledge and comes to the conclusion that knowledge is less valuable than generally assumed. Clearly written and well argued, this 2003 book will appeal to students and professionals in epistemology.

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The Physical Basis of Predication

出版日：2007/07/12 作者：Andrew Newman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and logic, the idea of possibility, hierarchies of universals, and causation. He argues that neither language nor logic is a reliable guide to the nature of reality and that basic universals are the fundamental type of universal and are central to causation. All assertions and predications about the natural world are ultimately founded on these basic universals. A distinction is drawn between unified particulars (which reveal natural principle of unity) and arbitrary particulars (which lack such a principle); unified particulars are the terms of causal relations and thus the real constituents of the world. The world is not made up of events but of unified particulars and basic universals.

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Implicature：Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory

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Implicature：Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory

出版日：2007/07/02 作者：Wayne A. Davis 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its content). Gricean theory claims that conversational implicatures can be explained and predicted using general psycho-social principles. This theory has established itself as one of the orthodoxes in the philosophy of language. Wayne Davis argues controversially that Gricean theory does not work. He shows that any principle-based theory understates both the intentionality of what a speaker implicates and the conventionality of what a sentence implicates. In developing his argument the author explains that the psycho-social principles actually define the social function of implicature conventions, which contribute to the satisfaction of those principles. This challenging book will be of importance to philosophers of language and linguists, especially those working in pragmatics and sociolinguistics.

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Consciousness and the Origins of Thought

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Consciousness and the Origins of Thought

出版日：2007/05/31 作者：Norton Nelkin 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This book offers a comprehensive and broadly rationalist theory of the mind which continually tests itself against experimental results and clinical data. Taking issue with Empiricists who believe that all knowledge arises from experience and that perception is a non-cognitive state, Norton Nelkin argues that perception is cognitive, constructive and proposition-like. Further, as against Externalists who believe that our thoughts have meaning only insofar as they advert to the world outside our minds, he argues that meaning is determined 'in the head'. Finally, he offers an account of how we acquire some of our most basic concepts, including the concept of the self and that of other minds.

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熱搜：

Resistance to Evidence

Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction：A View on Fictionality

The Neural Structure of Consciousness

Resistance to Evidence

Sharing Knowledge：A Functionalist Account of Assertion

Normative Reasons：Between Reasoning and Explanation

Sharing Knowledge：A Functionalist Account of Assertion

Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

The Primitivist Theory of Truth

Familiar Objects and Their Shadows

Goodness and Justice：A Consequentialist Moral Theory

Probability and Evidence

Familiar Objects and Their Shadows

Common Sense:A Contemporary Defense

Living with Uncertainty：The Moral Significance of Ignorance

Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism

Language in the World：A Philosophical Enquiry

The Metaphysics of Everyday Life：An Essay in Practical Realism

Putting Skeptics in their Place：The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry

Object and Property

Making Moral Sense：Beyond Habermas and Gauthier

Substance among Other Categories

The Concept of Moral Obligation

Deontic Morality and Control

Meaning, Expression and Thought

Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others

The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language

Belief Policies

Seeing through Self-Deception

Emotional Reason：Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value

Brute Rationality：Normativity and Human Action

A Physicalist Manifesto：Thoroughly Modern Materialism

Mind and Supermind

Scientific Essentialism

Morality in a Natural World：Selected Essays in Metaethics

The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

The Physical Basis of Predication

Implicature：Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory

Consciousness and the Origins of Thought