Moore's paradox : new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person / [edited by] Mitchell Green and John N. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Mitchell S.

Williams, John, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958.

Moore, G. E.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Moore calls it a 'paradox' that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition. Ludwig Wittgenstein was fascinated by Moore's example, and the absurdity of Moore's saying was intensively discussed in the mid-20th century. Yet the source of the absurdity has remained elusive, and its recalcitrance has led researchers in recent decades to address it with greater care. In this definitive treatment of the problem of Moorean absurdity Green and Williams survey the history and relevance of the paradox and leading approaches to resolving it, and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area.

Contents:

Introduction and historical context

Introduction / Mitchell Green and John N. Williams

The all-seeing eye : a blind spot in the history of ideas / Roy Sorensen

Moore's paradox and knowledge

Moorean absurdity : an epistemological analysis / Claudio de Almeida

The normative character of belief / Thomas Baldwin

Moore's paradox, Evans's principle, and iterated beliefs / John N. Williams

Moore's paradox, belief, and assertion

What reflexive pronouns tell us about belief : a new Moore's paradox de se, rationality, and privileged access / Jay David Atlas

Moore's paradox and the transparency of belief / Jonathan E. Adler and Bradley Armour-Garb

Moore's paradox and consciousness

Consciousness, reasons, and Moore's paradox / André Gallois

Moorean absurdity and showing what's within / Mitchell Green

Arguments from Moore's paradox

My philosophical position says <p> and I don't believe <p> / Alan Hájek

Moorean pretense / Robert M. Gordon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199282791

019928279X

OCLC:

72868029