Philosophy at 3:AM : questions and answers with 25 top philosophers / Richard Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Richard, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Marshall, Richard, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The appeal of philosophy has always been its willingness to speak to those pressing questions that haunt us as we make our way through life. What is truth? Could we think without language? Is materialism everything? But in recent years, philosophy has been largely absent from mainstream cultural commentary. Many have come to believe that the field is excessively technical and inward-looking and that it has little to offer outsiders. The 25 interviews collected in this volume, all taken from a series of online interviews with leading philosophers published by the cultural magazine 3ammagazine.c

Contents:

Brian Lleiter : Leiter reports

Jason Stanley : philosophy as the great naïveté

Eric Schwitzgebel : the splintered skeptic

Mark Rowlands : hour of the wolf

Eric T. olson : the philosopher with no hands

Craig Callender : time lord

Kieran Setiya : what Anscombe intended and other puzzles

Kit Fine : metaphysical kit

Patricia Churchland : causal machines

Valerie Tiberius : mostly elephant, ergo

Peter Carruthers : mind reader

Joshua Knobe : indie rock virtues

Alfred R. Mele : the four million dollar philosopher

Graham Priest : logically speaking

Ursula Renz: after Spinoza : wiser, freer, happier

Cecile Fabre: on the intrinsic value of each of us

Hilde Lindemann : no ethics without feminism

Elizabeth S. Anderson : the new leveller

Christine Korsgaard: treating people as end in themselves

Michael Lynch : truth, reason and democracy

Timothy Williamson : classical investigations

Ernie Lepore : meaning, truth, language, reality

Jerry Fodor : meaningful words without sense, and other revolutions

Huw Price : without mirrors

Gary Gutting : what philosophers know.

Notes:

Interviews with 25 current thinkers conducted by Richard Marshall, as the interviewer on behalf of 3 a.m. magazine.

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-19-996955-8

0-19-996954-X

OCLC:

1027141883