Ian Ravenscroft's Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy PDF

By Ian Ravenscroft

ISBN-10: 0199267987

ISBN-13: 9780199267989

An illustrious line-up of seventeen philosophers from america, the united kingdom, and Australia current new essays on subject matters from the paintings of Frank Jackson, which bridges brain, language, common sense, metaphysics, and ethics. valuable to Jackson's paintings is an method of metaphysical matters equipped at the dual foundations of supervenience and conceptual research. within the first a part of the ebook six essays learn this method and its software to philosophy of brain and philosophy of colour. the second one half specializes in Jackson's hugely influential paintings on extraordinary attention. The 3rd half is dedicated to Jackson's paintings in ethics, either normative ethics and metaethics. The final 3 papers speak about Jackson's ground-breaking paintings on conditionals. the ultimate component to the ebook contains a considerable essay via Jackson in respond to his critics: this gives a few of the clearest expressions of the information which Jackson has dropped at the fore in philosophy.

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