Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction : Modality and Value
ISBN: 9780199970971 | 0199970971
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/1/2013
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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 thinkin... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Metaphysical Project | |
| Causation | |
| Necessity | |
| Value | |
| Indispensability | |
| Metaphysical Dissatisfaction | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Barry Stroud is Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Quest for Reality, Meaning, Understanding, and Practice, Understanding Human Knowledge, and The Significance of Philosophical Skepticism.
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