From Metaphysics to Ethics : A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780198236184 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Frank Jackson

Opis

Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as central to philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and widely misunderstood, suggests Jackson. He argues that such analysis is mistakenly clouded in mystery, preventing a whole range of important questions from being productively addressed. He anchors his argument in discussions of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion, and change, to ethics and the philosophy of color. In this way the book not only offers a methodological program for philosophy, but also casts new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.

Recenzje

Step by carefully argued step, in these John Locke Lectures, Frank Jackson inquires into how conceptual analysis subserves the aims of serious metaphysics. This is analytic philosophy at its best both on the unifying metaphilosophical theme, and also on the more specific questions of metaphysics and ethics used as main examples. Through the prismof language or not, Frank Jackson's lectures illuminate every subject that they touch. - Ernest Sosa - TLS 16th July 1999

O autorze

Frank Jackson is Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.