书名: From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis
作者: Frank Jackson (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (May 11, 2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0198250614
ISBN-13: 978-0198250616
Book Description
Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as central to philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and widely misunderstood, suggests Jackson. He argues that such analysis is mistakenly clouded in mystery, preventing a whole range of important questions from being productively addressed. He anchors his argument in discussions of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion, and change, to ethics and the philosophy of color. In this way the book not only offers a methodological program for philosophy, but also casts new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.
Review
`Jackson does a superb job of showing that conceptual analysis is indispensible in philosophical argumentation and that it has more practitioners than a survey of philosophers' recent remarks on methodology would lead one to suspect. This work is certain to be influential for years to come. Its contributions to philosophy are significant and wide ranging... Most important, in its eloquence and persuasiveness, Jackson's book promises to direct philosophers' attention to much-neglected metaphilosophical issues. Philosophy can only profit from Jackson's challenge - to achieve harmony between its methodological claims and its true practices.' -- Brie Gertler, Philosophy 71
`In the present climate, any serious work on philosophical methodology is of real interest; when the work is by a philosopher as clear and original as Frank Jackson, it is mandatory reading.' -- Philosophical Review
About the Author
Frank Jackson is at Australian National University.
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作者: Frank Jackson (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (May 11, 2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0198250614
ISBN-13: 978-0198250616
Book Description
Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as central to philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and widely misunderstood, suggests Jackson. He argues that such analysis is mistakenly clouded in mystery, preventing a whole range of important questions from being productively addressed. He anchors his argument in discussions of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion, and change, to ethics and the philosophy of color. In this way the book not only offers a methodological program for philosophy, but also casts new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.
Review
`Jackson does a superb job of showing that conceptual analysis is indispensible in philosophical argumentation and that it has more practitioners than a survey of philosophers' recent remarks on methodology would lead one to suspect. This work is certain to be influential for years to come. Its contributions to philosophy are significant and wide ranging... Most important, in its eloquence and persuasiveness, Jackson's book promises to direct philosophers' attention to much-neglected metaphilosophical issues. Philosophy can only profit from Jackson's challenge - to achieve harmony between its methodological claims and its true practices.' -- Brie Gertler, Philosophy 71
`In the present climate, any serious work on philosophical methodology is of real interest; when the work is by a philosopher as clear and original as Frank Jackson, it is mandatory reading.' -- Philosophical Review
About the Author
Frank Jackson is at Australian National University.
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