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The architecture of blame and praise : an interdisciplinary investigation /

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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 t...

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Main Author: Shoemaker, David, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Blame > Philosophy.
Praise > Philosophy.
Responsibility.
Narcissism.
Blâme > Philosophie.
Responsabilité.
Narcissisme.
Éloges > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY.
Behaviorism.
Movements.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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