Samuel C Wheeler

Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics

From the True to the Good

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Wheeler argues that given a Davidsonian understanding of truth, predication, and interpretation, and given a relativised version of Aristotelian essentialism compatible with Davidson's basic thinking, many metaphysical problems are not very deep. Although the analyses and arguments he gives are often at odds with those at which Davidson arrived, they apply the central Davidsonian insights about semantics, understanding, and interpretation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781138657373
• ISBN-10: 1138657379
• Artikelnr.: 44558178

Autorenporträt

Samuel C. Wheeler III is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Davidsonian Truth and its Consequences 2. Against Absolute Essentialism 3. Natures
Necessity
and Relative Essentialism 4. Kinds of Events 5. Modals and Conditionals 6. Properties
Propositions
and Facts 7. Future Contingents and Temporary Intrinsics 8. The Sorites and Davidsonian Innocuous Epistemicism 9. The Good 10. What We Ought to Do