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From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

By Frank Jackson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2000
ISBN
0198250614, 9780198250616, 0198236182, 9780198236184, 9780191519031
LCC
B808.5 .J33 1998
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
675 kB (691037 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
192\187
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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