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Scepticism and naturalism : some varieties / P.F. Strawson.

Title
Scepticism and naturalism : some varieties / P.F. Strawson.
Author
Strawson, P. F.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Description
xlii, 85 p.; 20 cm.
Subject
  • Skepticism
  • Naturalism
Note
  • "The Woodbridge lectures 1983."
  • Orignially published: Great Britain : Methuen & Co Ltd., 1985.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / by Quassim Cassam -- Intellectual autobiography / by P.F. Strawson -- Scepticism, naturalism, and transcendental arguments -- Introductory remarks -- Traditional scepticism -- Hume : reason and nature -- Hume and Wittgenstein -- Only connect : the role of transcendental arguments -- Three quotations -- Historicism : and the past -- Morality and perception -- Involvement and detachment -- The relativizing move and the two faces of naturalism -- A parallel case : perception and its objects -- Evasion or solution reconciliation or surrender? -- The mental and the physical -- The position so far -- The identity thesis : the two stories and their interface -- Identity or causal linkage? -- An imperfect parallel -- The matter of meaning -- Intensional entities : rejectionists and their obligations -- A naturalistic reduction : correctness and agreement in use -- The debate over recognition -- The debate over necessity -- Solution or conflict : an inconclusive conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780415450492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415450497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008019232
OCLC
  • 166361324
  • SCSB-12489587
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library