The possibility of philosophical understanding : the philosophy of Barry Stroud / edited by Jason Bridges, Niko Kolodny, and Wai-hung Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stroud, Barry.

Bridges, Jason.

Kolodny, Niko.

Wong, Wai-hung.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Stroud, Barry.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Summary:

This volume collects 13 essays on the philosophy of Barry Stroud written by a diverse group of contributors including some of his most distinguished interlocutors. They address such topics as Stroud's treatments of skepticism and subjectivism, his views on meaning and rule-following, on Hume, on Hume on personal identity, and on the role of desires in the explanation of action. Despite the diversity, the essays are unified by the thematic unity in Stroud's own writings. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : the question to understand philosophy / Jason Bridges and Niko Kolodny

Rethinking Hume's second thoughts about personal identity / Don Garrett

External world scepticism and the structure of epistemic entitlement / Michael Williams

Stroud and Pyrrhonism / Robert Fogelin

Transcendental and circular reasoning / Ernest Sosa

Stroud's proposal for removing the threat of skepticism / Jonathan Ellis

What the skeptic still can't learn from how we use the word "know" / Wai-hung Wong

Inside and outside language : Stroud's nonreductionism about meaning / Hannah Ginsborg

Dispositions and rational explanation / Jason Bridges

Colours as secondary qualities / John McDowell

Intelligible causation / John Campbell

Unsettling subjectivism about value / Sarah Stroud

Subjectivism and the metaphysics of time / Cheryl Chen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780195381658

0195381653

OCLC:

699009738