Essays in quasi-realism / Simon Blackburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackburn, Simon, 1944- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume collects together the author's pioneering essays on "quasi-realism", a philosophical position he first introduced in 1980 which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I. Metaphysics; 1. Truth, Realism, and the Regulation of Theory; 2. Knowledge, Truth, and Reliability; 3. Morals and Modals; 4. Opinions and Chances; 5. Hume and Thick Connexions; II. Ethics; 6. Moral Realism; 7. Supervenience Revisited; 8. Errors and the Phenomenology of Value; 9. How to Be an Ethical Anti-Realist; 10. Attitudes and Contents; 11. Just Causes; III. Mind and Matter; 12. The Individual Strikes Back; 13. Losing Your Mind: Physics, Identity, and Folk Burglar Prevention; 14. Filling in Space; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T

UV; W

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028198-7

0-19-773032-9

1-280-52667-X

0-19-535980-1

1-4237-5850-1

OCLC:

567927952