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Works and Worlds of Art
In this book the author treats art as an action performed by the artist as agent, rather than examining it from the point of view of its audience as contemplators.
Without Good Reason
Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational--we make significant and consistent …
What is Existence?
A thorough and closely argued examination of a central issue in philosophical logic, an issue which is shown to have profound implications for the philosophy of language and much …
The Diversity of Moral Thinking
This book argues for a radically different approach to traditional and important problems of moral philosophy. The book discusses three theses; the diversity of moralities and …
Slippery Slope Arguments
A `slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in a sequence of consequences from which you will …
Simplicity
Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions.
Sensory Qualities
Many philosophers doubt that one can provide any successful explanation of sensory qualities - of how things look, feel or seem to a perceiving subject. To do so one would need to …
Quality and Concept
The aim of this book is to provide a unified theory of properties, relations, and propositions (PRPs). The author explores the two traditional conceptions of PRPs and shows how …
Philosophy without Ambiguity
In this book, a set of problems which overlap philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence are examined from the point of view of Chomsky's …
Logic on the Track of Social Change
The book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors …
Experiences
Someone who has more sympathy with traditional empiricism than with much of present-day philosophy may ask himself: 'How do my experiences give rise to my beliefs about an external …
Divine Commands and Moral Requirements
In this wide-ranging study, Quinn argues that human moral autonomy is compatible with unqualified obedience to divine commands. He formulates several versions of the crucial …