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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bridges, Jason, editor.

Kolodny, Niko, editor.

Wong, Wai-hung, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stroud, Barry.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 300 pages).

Other Title:

Philosophy of Barry Stroud

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Barry Stroud's work has had a profound impact on a very wide array of philosophical topics, but there has heretofore been no book-length treatment of his work. The current collection aims to redress this gap, with 13 essays on Stroud's work, all but one new to this volume.

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-970062-1