The good and the true / Michael Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Michael (Michael Rowland), author.

Series:

Oxford philosophical monographs.

Oxford philosophical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Scientism.

Content (Psychology).

Ethics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Confronting the scientific conception of the nature of reality Michael Morris suggests that we can only make sense of concept-possession, belief and truth from within a perspective which counts values in general, and moral goodness in particular, as part of the world.

Contents:

pt. I. Metaphysics and Contents. 1. Philosophical Theories and Metaphysical Schemes. 1.1. Theories of content and metaphysical presuppositions. 1.2. Some basic terminology. 1.3. Conceptualism, Platonism, and the no-theory view. 2. Conceptualism is Kantian. 2.1. A Kantian conception of interesting explanations. 2.2. A Kantian rejection of Platonism. 3. Informativeness. 4. Scientism. 4.1. Scientism as a general metaphysical scheme. 4.2. The first argument against scientism. 4.3. The second argument against scientism. 4.4. Further remarks on scientism. 5. A Proposal for a Scientific Metaphysics. 5.1. The knowledge constraint. 5.2. Is the knowledge constraint verificationist? 5.3. Explanatory priority

pt. II. The Shape of a Theory of Content. 6. What is a Theory of Content?

6.1. The topic. 6.2. Content and the knowledge constraint. 6.3. Sense and meaning. 7. Unified Externalism. 7.1. The basic argument. 7.2. Objections to singular thoughts. 7.3. Dual componency. 7.4. Unified externalism and causal reductionism. 8. The Explanation of Behaviour. 8.1. An anodyne constraint. 8.2. The 'folk-psychology' myth. 8.3. Unpicking the myth. 8.4. The onus of proof. 8.5. Descartes's ghost and the 'mind-body problem'. 8.6. The rediscovery of Descartes's ghost. 8.7. Conclusion

pt. III. An Evaluative Theory of Content. 9. The Core of a Theory. 9.1. The theory in outline. 9.2. Is truth a value? 9.3. Values and reduction. 9.4. The 'is'-'ought' distinction. 9.5. A more precise formulation of the theory. 10. Intrinsic Assessability.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version