Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction

Modality and Value

Автор: Barry Stroud

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 10-18 дни

45.38 € 88.76 лв

We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Barry Stroud

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2013

страници

178

EAN

9780199970971

ISBN

0199970971

Enbook ID

04537090

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

286

Размери

234 x 158 x 14

Пълно описание

We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. And in acting intentionally we all take certain things to be good reason to believe or do certain things. In this book Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all. That means no one could consistently dismiss all beliefs of these kinds as merely ways of thinking that do not describe how things really are in the world as it is independently of us and our responses. But the unacceptability of any such negative "unmasking" view does not support a satisfyingly positive metaphysical "realism." No metaphysical satisfaction is available either way, given the conditions of our holding the beliefs whose metaphysical status we wish to understand. This does not mean we will stop asking the metaphysical question. But we need a better understanding of how it can have whatever sense it has for us. This challenging volume takes up these large, fundamental questions in clear language accessible to a wide philosophical readership.

Може също да ви хареса