The architecture of blame and praise : an interdisciplinary investigation / David Shoemaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoemaker, David, 1964- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blame--Philosophy.

Blame.

Praise--Philosophy.

Praise.

Responsibility.

Narcissism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In this text, David Shoemaker investigates the complicated nature of blame and praise - teasing out their many varieties while defending a general symmetry between them. The book provides a thoroughgoing normative grounding for all types of blame and praise, one that does not appeal in any fashion to desert or the metaphysics of free will.

Contents:

Intro

Truth Without Truths

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part I: Alethic Nihilism Against Paradox

1: Introducing alethic nihilism

1.1 Propositions

1.2 Alethic nihilism

1.3 Alethic nihilism compared with deflationism

2: Alethic nihilism against paradox

2.1 Nihilism against the Liar

2.2 Nihilism against many other paradoxes

2.3 Nihilism against paradoxes of underdetermination

3: The superiority of the nihilist solutions to the paradoxes

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Nihilism against 'missing proposition' responses to the paradoxes

3.3 Nihilism against non-classical responses to the paradoxes

3.4 Moderate restrictionism versus radical restrictionism

3.5 Nihilism's immunity from revenge

Part II: Alethic Nihilism as an Error Theory

4: Alethic nihilism as an error theory

4.1 Realism and anti-realism

4.2 Truth and realism

4.3 Objections to error theories (i): radicality

4.4 Objections to error theories (ii): indispensability arguments

4.5 Advantages of error theories (i): ontological

4.6 Advantages of error theories (ii): epistemological

Part III: In Defence of Alethic Nihilism

5: Truth in philosophy

5.1 Truth in philosophical theories and definitions

5.2 Truth and assertion

5.3 Fake news and post-truth

6: Further objections to nihilism

6.1 Unintelligible quantification?

6.2 The Principle of Uniform Solution

6.3 The Satisfier paradox

Part IV: Alethic Nihilism and Its Rivals

7: Inconsistency theories

7.1 What is an inconsistency theory?

7.2 Scharp's inconsistency theory

7.3 Eklund's inconsistency theory

8: Primitivism

8.1 Can inconsistent concepts be analysed?

8.2 The omnipresence argument

8.3 The foundationalist argument

8.4 The argument from logical apparatus

9: Fictionalism

9.1 Hermeneutic fictionalism and revolutionary fictionalism

9.2 Beall's constructive methodological deflationism

9.3 From CMD to dialetheism?

9.4 The psychological implausibility of CMD

9.5 From CMD to alethic nihilism

9.6 Armour-Garb and Woodbridge's fictionalism

9.7 Hermeneutic fictionalism about truth-talk

Conclusion

Works cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 29, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198915867

0198915861

9780198915843

0198915845

OCLC:

1453504103