Identity, Truth and Value: Essays in Honor of David Wiggins

ISBN-13: 9780631220688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str.

Lovibond; Angela Williams; Sabina Lovibond

Opis

This collection of essays was presented to David Wiggins to mark his 60th birthday and his accession to the Wykeham Chair of Logic at Oxford. The contributors, who include both long-established and younger writers, take up some of the many important philosophical debates on which Wiggins has made an impact. Their chosen topics range from ancient philosophy to contemporary questions in ethics, metaphysics and the theory of meaning. A feature of the volume is that it contains Wiggins's comments on each of the papers, and so offers an accessible guide to his present thinking.

Spis treści

Aristotelian Society Monographs Series.

Aristotelian Society Monograph Committee: Martin Davies (Monograph Editor), Thomas Baldwin, Jennifer Hornsby, Mark Sainsbury, Anthony Savile.

1. Wittgenstein on Meaning: An Interpretation and Evaluation: Colin McGinn.

2. Modes of Occurrence: Verbs, Adverbs and Events: Barry Taylor.

3. Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects: Kit Fine.

4. Thoughts: An Essay on Content: Christopher Peacocke.

5. Metaphor: David E. Cooper.

6. Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value (Second Edition): David Wiggins.

7. Colour: Some Philosophical Problems from Wittgenstein (Second Edition): Jonathan Westphal.

8. Aesthetic Reconstructions: The Seminal Writings of Lessing, Kant and Schiller: Anthony Savile.

9. Languages of Possibility: An Essay in Philosophical Logic: Graeme Forbes.

10. Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms: E. J. Lowe.

11. Logical Necessity: I. McFetridge.

12. Psychoanalysis, Mind, and Art: Perspectives on Richard Wollheim: Edited by Jim Hopkins and Anthony Savile.

13. Quantum Non–Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics: Tim Maudlin.

14. The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control: John Martin Fischer.

15. Universals and Property Instances: The Alphabet of Being: John Bacon.

16. Identity, Truth and Value: Essays for David Wiggins: Sabina Lovibond and S. G. Williams.

17. Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms: A Case Against Physicalism: Josep E. Corbí and Josep L. Prades.

18. Moral Theory and Anomaly: Tom Sorell.

O autorze

Sabina Lovibond is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford. She is author of Realism and Imagination in Ethics (Blackwell, 1983) and co–editor of Ethics: A Feminist Reader (Blackwell, 1992).

S. G. Williams is also Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford and has written on philosophical logic and metaphysics.

Blurb

This collection of essays was presented to David Wiggins to mark his 60th birthday and his accession to the Wykeham Chair of Logic at Oxford. The contributors, who include both long–established and younger writers, take up some of the many important philosophical debates on which Wiggins has made an impact. Their chosen topics range from ancient philosophy to contemporary questions in ethics, metaphysics and the theory of meaning. An attractive feature of the volume is that it contains Wiggins′s comments on each of the papers, and so offers an accessible guide to his present thinking.