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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Constructive Interpretation of Predictive
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990, this book consists of a detailed exposition of results of the theory of interpretation developed by G. Kreisel the relative impenetrability of which gives the elucidation contained here great value for anyone seeking to understand his work. It contains more complex versions of the information obtained by Kreisel for number theory and clustering around the no-counter-example interpretation, for number-theorectic forumulae provide in ramified analysis. It also proves the omega-consistency of ramified analysis. The author also presents proofs of Schütte's cut-elimination theorems which are based on his consistency proofs and essentially contain them these went further than any published work up to that point, helping to squeeze the maximum amount of information from these proofs.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter I. Introduction; 1. Statement of the Problem 2. Systems Considered 3. Metamathematical Methods of Proof; Chapter II. Over-Simple Interpretations; 1. Trivial Interpretation 2. Failure of Interpretation by Recursive Satisfaction 3. Dependence of the Proof of the Verifiable Formula corresponding to a Theorem; Chapter III. Herbrand Interpretation; 1. The Concept of Herbrand Interpretation 2. Herbrand Interpretation of Elementary Number Theory without Induction 3. Properties of the Interpretation 4. Impossibility of an Herbrand Interpretation of Number Theory with Induction; Chapter IV. The No-Counter-Example Interpretation of Number Theory; 1. Non-constructive Considerations 2. No-Counter-Example Interpretation of Number Theory without Induction 3. No-Counter-Example Interpretation, 1*-Consistency, and External Consistency 4. Ordinal Recursive Functionals, 1*-Consistency of Number Theory with Induction 5. Representation of Ordinal Recursive Functionals in Elementary Number Theory; Chapter V. Ramified Analysis; 1. Description of Systems 2. Ramified Analysis without Induction 3. Recursive Well-orderings and Ordinal Recursive Functionals 4. Ramified Analysis with Induction 5. Representation of Ordinal Recursive Functionals in Ramified Analysis; Chapter VI. Ω-Consistency; 1. Critique of the Concept of ω-Consistency 2. Ω-Consistency, External Consistency, and 1*-Consistency 3. Ω-Consistency of Ramified Analysis; Appendix I. Arithmetization of Schütte’s Cut-elimination theorems; Appendix II. Ordinal Functions; Bibliography; Index of Definitions
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Cambridge University Press Ethics and the a Priori
Book SynopsisMichael Smith has written a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Moral Psychology: 1. Internal reasons; 2. The incoherence argument: reply to Schafer-Landau; 3. Philosophy and commonsense: the case of weakness of will; 4. Frog and toad lose control; 5. A theory of freedom and responsibility; 6. Rational capacities; 7(i) On Humeans, anti-humeans and motivation: a reply to Pettit; 7(ii) Humeanism, psychologism, and the normative story; 8. The possibility of philosophy of action; Part II. Meta-Ethics: 9. Moral realism; 10. Objectivity and moral realism: on the significance of the phenomenology of moral experience; 11. In defence of The Moral Problem: a reply to Brink, Copp and Sayre-McCord; 12. Exploring the implications of the dispositional theory of value; 13. Does the evaluative supervene on the natural?; 14. Internalism's wheel; 15. Evaluation, uncertainty, and motivation; 16. Ethics and the a priori: a modern parable.
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Cambridge University Press Moral Repair
Book SynopsisMoral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic examples of both to analyze how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must be done to repair the damage.Trade Review"Walker presents a compelling picture of the interconnections between hope and trust and moral relations. "While our moral understandings are grounded on trust," she writes, "this trust is in turn dependent on hope." -Brad Wilburn, Chadron State CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. What is moral repair?; 2. Hope's value; 3. Damages to trust; 4. Resentment and assurance; 5. Forgiving; 6. Making amends.
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Cambridge University Press Mind Reason and Imagination
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Cambridge University Press The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding
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Cambridge University Press A Physicalist Manifesto
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Cambridge University Press Brute Rationality
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Cambridge University Press Supervenience
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Cambridge University Press The Classification of Visual Art A Philosophical Myth and its History
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Cambridge University Press Causes and Coincidences
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Cambridge University Press Carnaps Construction of the World
Book SynopsisThis book is a major contribution to the history of analytic philosophy. It provides the first detailed and comprehensive study of Rudolf Carnap, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy.Trade Review'… an intensive examination of virtually all of Carnap's earlier writings … Richardson has very helpfully mined this material, exhibiting a rare combination of historical and philosophical insight. I believe that the book will therefore be indispensable for all future work on Carnap.' Michael Friedman, author of Kant and the Exact SciencesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Reconstructing the Aufbau; 2. The problem of objectivity: an overview of Carnap's constitutional project; 3. An outline of the constitutional projects for objectivity; 4. The background to early Carnap: themes from Kant; 5. The fundamentals of neo-Kantian epistemology; 6. Carnap's neo-Kantian origins: Der Raum; 7. Critical conventionalism; 8. Epistemology between logic and science: the essential tension; 9. After objectivity: logical empiricism as philosophy of science; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Explanation and Meaning
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Cambridge University Press Speech Acts an Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Book SynopsisWritten in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.Trade Review'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How to do things with words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.' The Philosophical Quarterly'This book has immediately, and justly, been accorded the status of a major contribution to the philosophy of language. The brilliant but programmatic insights of Austin's How to do things with words are systematically developed and integrated with the more recent work of philosophers such as Grice, Rawls and Searle himself to produce an apparently comprehensive and certainly illuminating general theory, summarized in what Searle terms the 'main hypothesis' of the book, 'speaking a language is engaging in a rule-governed form of behaviour.' Mind'The main merit of Searle's book - and it is a very substantial merit indeed - is that by attempting to construct a systematic theory of speech acts it substantially advances out knowledge of the problems that have to be solved in this fascinating field. Even if Searle himself has not yet found a wholly satisfactory way through the jungle, he has certainly established a number of clearings which will greatly facilitate subsequent explorations.' Philosophical Review'Written in an outstanding clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. A Theory of Speech Acts: 1. Methods and scope; 2. Expressions, meaning and speech acts; 3. The structure of illocutionary acts; 4. Reference as a speech act; 5. Predication; Part II. Some Applications of the Theory: 6. Three fallacies in contemporary philosophy; 7. Problems of reference; 8. Deriving 'ought' from 'is'; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity
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Cambridge University Press Language Mind Logic
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Cambridge University Press Theory and Measurement
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Cambridge University Press Paradoxes A Study in form and predication Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Portraying Analogy
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Cambridge University Press What Are Philosophical Systems
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Cambridge University Press Matter and Sense
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Cambridge University Press The Metaphysics of Mind
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Cambridge University Press Meaning and Method Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam
Book SynopsisIn this festschrift for the eminent philosopher Hilary Putnam, a team of distinguished philosophers write on a broad range of topics and thus reflect the remarkably fertile and provocative research of Putnam himself. The volume is not merely a celebration of a man, but also a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas. The essays fall naturally into three groups: a central core on the theme of conventionality and content in the philosophy of mind, language, and science, and two smaller sections on the relationship of ethics and language, and on the philosophy of logic and aesthetics.Table of ContentsPreface; List of contributors; 1. The source of the concept of truth Michael Dummet; 2. Facts that don't matter Catherine Z. Elgin; 3. Has the description theory of names been refuted? Jerrold J. Katz; 4. Substitution arguments and the individuation of beliefs J. A. Fodor; 5. Meanings just ain't in the head Michael Devitt; 6. Semantic anorexia: on the notion of 'content' in cognitive science Louise Antony; 7. Can the mind change the world? Ned Block; 8. Realism, conventionality and 'realism about' Richard Boyd; 9. Invidious contrasts within theories Lawrence Sklar; 10. Mathematics and modality Hartry Field; 11. Ontological commitment: thick and thin Harold Hodes; 12. The standard of equality of numbers George Boolos; 13. Doing what one ought to do Ruth Anna Putnam; 14. Closing up the corpses: diseases of sexuality and the emergence of the psychiatric style of reasoning Arnold I. Davidson; 15. Perception and revolution: The Princess Casamassima and the political imagination Martha Nussbaum; 16. Human rights, population aging and intergenerational equity Norman Daniels.
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Cambridge University Press God and the Ethics of Belief
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Cambridge University Press Auguste Comte Volume 3 An Intellectual Biography Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
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Cambridge University Press Appearances of the Good An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness
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Cambridge University Press Traditional and Analytical Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Common Sense
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Cambridge University Press The Logical Foundations of Bradleys Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
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Cambridge University Press The Tanner Lectures on Human Values VII Volume 7 Tanner Lectures in Human Values
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Cambridge University Press The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
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Cambridge University Press Epistemetrics
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Cambridge University Press Mathematics Models and Modality
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
Book SynopsisJohn Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.Trade Review'Rawls' political philosophy evolved over more than 50 years, and he left us with an extremely rich and complex body of work. With more than 200 entries - from abortion to Wittgenstein - this volume is a really useful resource for finding one's way through the full range of his thinking.' Adam Swift, University of Warwick'The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon will prove an ideal companion to anyone writing on any topic in political philosophy today … an outstanding collection, both useful and enjoyable to read.' Political Studies ReviewTable of Contentspart of justification); Fair equality of opportunity; Fairness, Principle of; Faith; Family; Feminism; Formal justice; The four-stage sequence; Freedom; Freedom of speech; Freeman, Samuel; Fundamental ideas (in justice as fairness); G.
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Cambridge University Press Reason and Value
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Cambridge University Press A Theory of Universals Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science.Table of ContentsThe argument of Volume I; Part IV. Predicates and Universals: 13. Relations between predicates and universals; 14. Rejection of disjunctive and negative universals; 15. Acceptance of conjunctive universals; 16. The identification of universals; 17. Different semantic correlations between predicates and universals; 18. Properties; 19. Relations; Part VI. The Analysis of Resemblance: 20. The resemblance of particulars; 21. The resemblance of universals (I): criticism of received accounts; 22. The resemblance of universals (II): a new account; Part VII. Higher-Order Universals: 23. Higher-order properties; 24. Higher-order relations; Conclusion; Glossary; Indices.
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Cambridge University Press Minds Machines and Evolution
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Cambridge University Press Pleasure Preference and Value Studies in philosophical aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press Causes and Coincidences
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Cambridge University Press Human Beings 29 Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series Number 29
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge and Evidence
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Cambridge University Press Carnaps Construction of the World
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Cambridge University Press Supervenience
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Cambridge University Press Wittgensteins Metaphysics
Book SynopsisWittgenstein's Metaphysics offers an interpretation of the fundamental ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It takes issue with the conventional view that after 1930 Wittgenstein rejected the philosophy of the Tractatus and developed a wholly new conception of philosophy.Trade Review"This lucidly written book is single-mindedly devoted to exhibiting Wittgenstein's work as continuous development within traditional metaphysics....A special merit of the book is the presentation, in the Introduction, of these argued for, and the so-called myths which Cook argues against." Alice Ambrose, International Studies in PhilosophyTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. From Idealism to Pure Realism: 1. Wittgenstein's philosophical beginnings; 2. Neutral monism; 3. The 'objects' of the Tractatus; 4. The essence of the world can be shown but not said; 5. What the solipsist means is quite correct; 6. Pure realism and the elimination of private objects; Part II. The Metaphysics of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy: 7. Wittgenstein's phenomenalism; 8. A new philosophical method; 9. Wittgenstein's behaviourism; 10. Wittgenstein and Kohler; Part III. Causation and Science in a Phenomenal World: 11. Hume on causation; 12. Wittgenstein's Humean view of causation; 13. The problem of induction; Part IV. Logical Possibilities and the Possibility of Knowledge: 14. Logical possibilities and philosophical method; 15. The search for a phenomenalist's theory of knowledge; Part V. The Past, Memory, and the Private Language Argument: 16. Memory, tenses and the past; 17. Wittgenstein's analysis of mental states and powers; 18. Following a rule; 19. The private language argument; 20. Names of sensations and the use theory of meaning; Name index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts
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Cambridge University Press Comte After Positivism
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