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1 online resource (117 pages) |
| Series |
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy |
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Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Introduction -- Coincidences -- Intended Audience -- Things This Book Is Not -- The Main Themes of the Book -- The Chapters in Brief -- 2 A Brief Intellectual History -- Introduction -- Baruch Spinoza: The First Modern Philosopher -- Donald Davidson: Thinker of a Single World -- Differences and Approaches -- 3 Mind Versus Matter: Parallelism and Anomalous Monism -- Introduction -- Ontological Monism and Conceptual Dualism -- Davidson's Anomalous Monism -- The Absence of Psychophysical Laws -- Spinoza on Causal Relations and Causal Explanations -- Is Spinoza an Anomalous Monist? -- The Greatest Theoretical Synthesis in the History of the Human Race -- 4 Knowing the World and Those Who Live in It: Issues in Epistemology and Metaphysics -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene for Davidson -- Discarding the Metaphors: Reclaiming the World -- Setting the Scene for Spinoza -- Spinoza's Infinitely Many Attributes: Through the Eye of the Needle -- The Metaphysical Angle -- The Epistemological Angle -- 5 Naturalism, Representationalism, and the Linguistic Turn -- Introduction -- The Linguistic Turn -- Spinoza's Attributes as Modes of Description -- Spinoza and Davidson: Strong and Weak Naturalism -- Natural Science and Philosophy -- Then and Now: The End of Logical Positivism -- The New View: Naturalism Without Materialism -- 6 An Ethics for Our Time? -- Introduction -- The Difference Between Ethics and Morality -- Naturalism in Ethics: Substance as the Source of Good and Bad -- Davidson and Spinoza: Ethics as 'Too Hard' -- The Threat of Relativism -- Harmless Relativism -- Ethics for Davidson and Spinoza: Ontological Particularism -- Theories and Moral Progress -- Ethics and Enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Davidson, Donald
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351946186 |
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1351946188 |
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