From Metaphysics to Ethics
A Defence of Conceptual Analysis
Seiten
2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-825061-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-825061-6 (ISBN)
Offering a methodological programme for philosophy, this book throws light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations. The author champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues.
Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed without it. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion and change, to the philosophy of colour and to ethics. The significance of different kinds of supervenience theses, Kripke and Putnam's work in the philosophy of modality and language, and the role of intuitions about possible cases receive detailed attention. Jackson concludes with a defence of a version of analytical descriptivism in ethics. In this way the book not only offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also throws fascinating new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.
Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed without it. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion and change, to the philosophy of colour and to ethics. The significance of different kinds of supervenience theses, Kripke and Putnam's work in the philosophy of modality and language, and the role of intuitions about possible cases receive detailed attention. Jackson concludes with a defence of a version of analytical descriptivism in ethics. In this way the book not only offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also throws fascinating new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.
Frank Jackson is Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.
1. SERIOUS METAPHYSICS AND SUPERVENIENCE; 2. THE ROLE OF CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; 3. CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND METAPHYSICAL NECESSITY; 4. THE PRIMARY QUALITY VIEW OF COLOUR; 5. THE LOCATION PROBLEM FOR ETHICS: MORAL PROPERTIES AND MORAL CONTENT; 6. ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTIVISM; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.3.2000 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 217 mm |
Gewicht | 240 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-825061-4 / 0198250614 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-825061-6 / 9780198250616 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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