عنوان

Socratic puzzles /

(Number (ISBN

0674816536

(Number (ISBN

0674816544

(Number (ISBN

9780674816534

(Number (ISBN

9780674816541

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b794363

Title Proper

Socratic puzzles /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert Nozick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 400 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-390) and index.

Text of Note

Choice and Utility. 1. Coercion. 2. Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice. 3. Reflections on Newcomb's Problem. 4. Interpersonal Utility Theory. 5. On Austrian Methodology -- Philosophy and Methodology. 6. Socratic Puzzles. 7. Experience, Theory, and Language. 8. Simplicity as Fall-Out. 9. Invisible-Hand Explanations -- Ethics and Politics. 10. Moral Complications and Moral Structures. 11. On the Randian Argument. 12. Weighted Voting and "One-Man, One-Vote" -- Discussions and Reviews. 13. Goodman, Nelson, on Merit, Aesthetic. 14. Who Would Choose Socialism? 15. Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? 16. The Characteristic Features of Extremism. 17. War, Terrorism, Reprisals -- Drawing Some Moral Lines. 18. Do Animals Have Rights? -- Philosophical Fictions. 19. Fiction. 20. R.S.V.P. -- A Story. 21. Testament. 22. Teleology.

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Text of Note

Comprising essays and philosophical fictions, classics and new work, the book ranges from Socrates to W.V. Quine, from the implications of an Israeli kibbutz to the flawed arguments of Ayn Rand. Nozick considers the figure of Socrates himself as well as the Socratic method (why is it a method of getting at the truth?). Many of these essays bring classic methods to bear on new questions about choice. How should you choose in a disconcerning situation ("Newcomb's Problem") when your decisions are completely predictable? Why do threats and not offers typically coerce our choices? How do we make moral judgments when we realize that our moral principles have exceptions? Other essays present new approaches to familiar intellectual puzzles, from the stress on simplicity in scientific hypotheses to the tendency of intellectuals to oppose capitalism.

Socrates.

Socrate.

Socrate.

Socrates.

Socrates.

Ethics.

Methodology.

Philosophy.

Political science-- Philosophy.

Idées politiques-- Philosophie.

Méthodologie.

Morale.

Philosophie.

Philosophy, American.

Questioning.

Socrates.

Idées politiques-- Philosophie.

Méthodologie.

Morale.

Philosophie.

Ethics.

Ethiek.

Methodologie

Methodologie.

Methodology.

Methodology.

Philosophie

Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Political science-- Philosophy.

Political science.

Politieke filosofie.

Politische Philosophie

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Edition

Class number

Book number

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System Code

Nozick, Robert.

Date of Transaction

20201207073213.0

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