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Philosophical Relativity

By Peter Unger

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
019515553X, 9780195155532, 9781423726722
LCC
BD221 .U535 2002
Open Library ID
OL3559031M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7857075 bytes)
Pages
144\144
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this short but meaty book, Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to central problems in philosophy. As Unger hypothesizes, many of these problems are unanswerable, including the problems of knowledge and scepticism, the problems of free will, and problems of causation and explanation. In each case, he argues, we arrive at one answer only relative to an assumption about the meaning of key terms, terms like "know" and like "cause," even while we arrive at an opposite answer relative to quite different assumptions, but equally arbitrary assumptions, about what the key terms mean.

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