Logos and Life Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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La Vergne :
Anthem Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- I
- II
- III
- Notes
- References
- Part I MIND
- Chapter One The Functionalist's Inner State
- Behaviourism and Functionalism
- A Thought Experiment
- Madmen and Super-Spartans
- How to Proceed?
- Reference, Objectivity, Science
- Natural Responses
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Two 'Not a Something'
- Introduction
- Context and Constitution
- 'I Was Thinking'
- Token-Identity Theory
- Investigation
- Sensations
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Three Sincerity in Thought
- Introduction
- Insincerity in Thought and Behaviour
- The Doubtfulness of a Thought
- Failure to Think Properly
- Sincerity: Intellectual or Ethical Virtue?
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Four is Pleasure a Good?
- 'Good' and 'the Good'
- Enjoying and Wanting
- 'How Is That Pleasant?'
- Interpretative Motives
- Pleasure as a Good
- Notes
- References
- Part II Action
- Chapter Five The Voluntary and the Involuntary: Themes from Anscombe
- Preamble
- 'Why?' and the Merely Voluntary
- Something Physiological?
- Possible Prevention
- Conformity with the Will
- 'It Didn't Occur to Me'
- Some Counterfactuals
- Voluntary Ignorance
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Six Rational Choice Theory and Backward-Looking Motives
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Seven Meaning, Understanding and Action
- Understanding Stopping and Forcing Modals
- Abilities and Inclinations
- Illusion and Confusion
- Travails of Internalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Eight Why 'Why?'? Action, Reasons and Language
- Not a Heuristic Device
- Voluntariness and Responsibility
- 'Mental State': An Unhelpful Notion
- Some Implications
- Notes
- References
- Part III Ethics
- Chapter Nine Ethics and Philosophy: Aristotle and Wittgenstein Compared
- Preamble
- Wisdom, Theoretical and Practical
- Philosophy and Natural Science
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Ten 'How Should One Live?': Williams on Practical Deliberation and Reasons for Acting
- Practical Deliberation as Radically First-Personal
- Desires as Reasons
- Internal and External Reasons
- Human Nature and the Ethical
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Eleven 'An Inculcated Caring': Ryle on Moral Knowledge
- A Third Kind of Knowledge
- Telling the Difference
- An Inculcated Caring
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Twelve Are There any Intrinsically Unjust Acts?
- Preamble
- Habitual Refusal and Exclusion from Deliberation
- Moral Dilemmas
- (Ir)relevance of Motive
- The Nature of Practical Wisdom
- Bedrock
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part IV Language
- Chapter Thirteen The Identity of a Word
- Words in Context
- A Theory of Language?
- Some Recent Attempts
- Philosophy of Language and Beyond
- Notes
- References
- Chapter Fourteen Ryle on Hypotheticals
- Hypotheticals and Inference Precepts