Mind, Language and Morality: Essays in Honor of Mark Platts

ISBN-13: 9780815385028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 196 str.

Gustavo Ortiz-Millan; Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero

Opis

Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program. He is also a pioneer in discussions of moral realism, and has made important contributions to bioethics, the philosophy of human rights and moral responsibility.

Spis treści

Preface Gustavo Ortiz-Millán and Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero  1. Ways of Meaning and Knowing Moral Realities Barry Stroud   2. Platts on Kant and Mandeville Ralph Walker  3. Wrong Direction: A Criticism of Direction of Fit Gustavo Ortiz-Millán  4. Equality as a Foundation of Ethics James Griffin  5. Inflation or Deflation of Rights? Rodolfo Vázquez  6. The Debate on Abuse of the Concept of Human Rights Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero   7. Convergence or Divergence in the Evolution of (Criminal) Rights? A Case Study of the Multiple Incoherencies of the Presumption of Innocence Larry Laudan  8. Wittgenstein on Rule Following; Some Themes and Some Reactions Paul Snowdon  9. Kantian Neuroscience and Radical Interpretation: Ways of Meaning in the Bayesian Brain Jim Hopkins  10. Reflections and Replies Mark Platts   11. Philosophical Life Mark Platts

O autorze

Gustavo Ortiz-Millán is Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He works primarily on ethics, including moral psychology and applied ethics, philosophy of mind and action. Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero is Professor of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).