Research Catalog

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