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Author Blackburn, Simon, 1944-

Title Essays in quasi-realism / Simon Blackburn
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 262 pages)
Contents I. Metaphysics: Truth, realism and the regulation of theory -- Knowledge, truth, and reliability -- Morals and modals -- Opinions and chances -- Hume and thick connexions -- II. Ethics: Moral realism -- Supervenience revisited -- Errors and the phenomenology of value -- How to be an ethical anti-realist -- Attitudes and contents -- Just causes -- III. Mind and matter: The individual strikes back -- Losing your mind : physics, identity, and folk burglar prevention -- Filling in the space
Summary This volume collects together the author's pioneering essays on "quasi-realism", a philosophical position he first introduced in 1980 which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics
Analysis Realism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Realism.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Realism.
Realism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423758501
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