عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
BD41 .M34 2017eb
BD41
.
M34
2017eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0262340097
(Number (ISBN
9780262340090
Erroneous ISBN
0262036193
Erroneous ISBN
9780262036191
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Philosophical provocations :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
55 short essays /
First Statement of Responsibility
Colin McGinn.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The MIT Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2017]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface -- I. Mind. The Mystery of the Unconscious -- Concepts of Mind -- Knowledge and Emotion: An Untenable Dualism -- The Second Mind -- Awareness of Time -- Mind-Brain Identity Theories -- Are There Actions? -- Actions and Reasons -- Consciousness and Light -- Have We Already Solved the Mind-Body Problem? -- The Reality of the Inner -- The Thought of Language -- II Language. Meaning Monism -- Against Language-Games -- Meaning without Language -- For Privacy -- On the Impossibility of a (Wholly) Public Language -- Deciding to Mean -- Truth, Verification, and Meaning -- Meaning and Argument -- III Knowledge.
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Immaterial DarwinismTrait Selection -- VI Ethics. The Trouble with Consequentialism -- Absurd Utilitarianism -- Why Is It Good to Be Alive? -- Physical Noncognitivism -- Child Liberation -- Modesty and Self-Knowledge -- Is Romantic Self-Love Possible? -- Against Laughter -- VII Religion. A Deontological Theodicy -- God and the Devil -- A Religion of Hate -- Index.
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Knowledge and Truth -- Proof of an External World -- The Simulation Game -- The Riddle of Knowledge -- Does Knowledge Imply Truth? -- Everything Is Hidden -- Light and Our Knowledge of Matter -- Seeing the Light -- IV Metaphysics -- Knowing and Necessity -- Antirealism Refuted -- The Puzzle of Paradox -- The Secret Cement -- Analysis and Mystery -- Explanation and Necessity; Against Possible Worlds; The Concept of a Person; The Question of Being; Science as Metaphysics; Logic without Propositions (or Sentences); V Biology -- Selfish Genes and Moral Parasites -- The Evolution of Color -- The Language of Evolution.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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MIT Press
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JSTOR
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MIT Press
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11166
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22573/ctt1tfz5bw
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9780262340090
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Philosophical provocations.
International Standard Book Number
9780262036191
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Essays.
Form Subheading
Selections
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY-- General.
PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Modern.
Philosophy.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
PHI-- 016000
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PHI015000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
192
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
BD41
Book number
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M34
2017eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
McGinn, Colin,1950-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822104637.0
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Electronic name
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