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This book is available either individually, or as part of the
specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
Many recent books on Hume have concentrated only on particular issues in his philosophy and have presented at best a fragmentary picture. This study, which is intelligible to the virtual beginner in philosophy as well as being of interest to Hume scholars and to philosophers dealing with the problems he discussed, offers a more consistent, unified interpretation and emphasizes the interest and importance of Hume's views for philosophers today. eBook available with sample pages: 0203169050
"A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy
to be." -Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita,
University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien-a being whose
ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely
different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking?
Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think
that two contradictory statements are both true at the same time?
Such questions may seem outlandish, but they serve to highlight a
fundamental philosophical question: is our logical form of thought
merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such?
From Descartes and Kant to Frege and Wittgenstein, philosophers
have wrestled with variants of this question, and with a range of
competing answers. A seminal 1991 paper, James Conant's "The Search
for Logically Alien Thought," placed that question at the forefront
of contemporary philosophical inquiry. The Logical Alien, edited by
Sofia Miguens, gathers Conant's original article with reflections
on it by eight distinguished philosophers-Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew
Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry
Stroud, Peter Sullivan, and Charles Travis. Conant follows with a
wide-ranging response that places the philosophical discussion in
historical context, critiques his original paper, addresses the
exegetical and systematic issues raised by others, and presents an
alternative account. The Logical Alien challenges contemporary
conceptions of how logical and philosophical form must each relate
to their content. This monumental volume offers the possibility of
a new direction in philosophy.
This collection of essays on themes in the work of John Locke
(1632-1704), George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume
(1711-1776), provides a deepened understanding of major issues
raised in the Empiricist tradition. In exploring their shared
belief in the experiential nature of mental constructs, The
Empiricists illuminates the different methodologies of these great
Enlightenment philosophers and introduces students to important
metaphysical and epistemological issues including the theory of
ideas, personal identity, and skepticism. It will be especially
useful in courses devoted to the history of modern philosophy.
Barry Stroud presents nineteen of his philosophical essays written
since 2001, on topics to do with knowing, seeing, and
understanding. He discusses the nature of philosophy, sense
experience, the possibility of perceptual knowledge, intentional
action and self-knowledge, the reality of the colours of things,
alien thought and the limits of understanding, moral knowledge,
meaning, use, and understanding of language.
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.
Distinguished scholar Barry Stroud presents a sustained and intricate philosophical argument based upon the question of whether physical objects are 'actually' coloured, or whether they merely appear to be so. He demonstrates how this specific question is inextricably linked to some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics. He also questions the very nature and constitution of these specific metaphysical issues. This long-awaited model of subtle, elegant, and rigorous philosophical writing ahould have a wide readership among philosophers working in all areas of philosophy.
Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of an eminent contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in analytic philosophy. Barry Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought, with particular reference to the thought of Wittgenstein.
This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central
issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging
from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge,
McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the
essays focus on David Hume, and examine the sources and
implications of his "naturalism" and his "scepticism." Three others
deal with the legacy of that "naturalism" in the twentieth century.
In each case Stroud moves beyond providing a description of
historical contexts and developments, and confronts the
philosophical issues as they present themselves to the philosophers
in question.
In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist
Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the
bases of ethics. In the first lecture he explores the role of
intuitions in moral thinking and offers a way of thinking about the
intuitive method of moral inquiry that both places this activity
within the natural world and makes sense of it as an indispensable
part of our lives as planners. In the second and third lectures he
takes up the kind of substantive ethical inquiry he has described
in the first lecture, asking how we might live together on terms
that none of us could reasonably reject. Since working at cross
purposes loses fruits that might stem from cooperation, he argues,
any consistent ethos that meets this test would be, in a crucial
way, utilitarian. It would reconcile our individual aims to
establish, in Kant's phrase, a "kingdom of ends." The volume also
contains an introduction by Barry Stroud, the volume editor,
critiques by Michael Bratman (Stanford University), John Broome
(Oxford University), and F. M. Kamm (Harvard University), and
Gibbard's responses.
Barry Stroud has since the 1970s been one of the most original contributors to the philosophical study of knowledge; this volume presents the best of his essays in this area. Anyone interested in epistemology will wish to read these profound investigations into its most fundamental problems.
This book raises questions about the nature of philosophy by
examining the source and significance of one central philosophical
problem: how can we know anything about the world around us? Stroud
discusses and criticizes the views of such philosophers as
Descartes, Kant, J.L. Austin, G.E. Moore, R. Carnap, W.V. Quine,
and others.
La philosophie de la connaissance - l'enquete classique qui
consiste a chercher a definir la notion de connaissance et a
etablir ses sources et ses limites - connait, depuis une trentaine
d'annees, un essor important, principalement dans la tradition
anglophone de philosophie analytique. En reprenant l'entreprise du
Theetete, et en reponse au defi du sceptique cartesien, les
philosophes contemporains ont formule des theories rivales de la
connaissance, tantot internalistes, tantot externalistes, alors que
les tentatives de reponse au trilemme d'Agrippa ont donne naissance
au debat entre les theories fondationnalistes et coherentistes de
la justification des croyances. Des formes renouvelees de
scepticisme ont vu le jour, en meme temps que des reponses fondees
sur le sens commun, dans la tradition de Reid et de Moore. A
travers la subtilite des arguments, l'inventivite des exemples et
la complexite des definitions qui les distinguent, ces theories
renouvellent radicalement les interrogations classiques et en
eclairent les presupposes. Ce recueil a ete concu pour permettre
l'acces du lecteur francais a un ensemble de textes contemporains
representatifs de ce domaine.
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