Analysis and Metaphysics Essays in Honor of R. M. Chisholm

AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH This collection of essays in honor of Roderick M. Chisholm is the work of his former students. The book was conceived and the original con­ tributors invited by Richard Taylor. We restricted the contributors to former students of Chisholm as a special tribute to his acknowled...

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Other Authors: Lehrer, Keith (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1975, 1975
Edition:1st ed. 1975
Series:Philosophical Studies Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A Tribute
  • I. Epistemology
  • Chisholm on Sensing and Perceiving
  • Testimonial Evidence
  • Reason and Consistency
  • Epistemic Values and Epistemic Viewpoints
  • Confirmation, Explanation and Acceptance
  • ‘I Know that I Am in Pain’ is Senseless
  • Knowledge and the Self-Presenting
  • II. Metaphysics
  • Scattered Objects
  • Hume on Causation
  • Brentanist Relations
  • Events as Recurrables
  • III. Ethics
  • On Doxastic Responsibility
  • World Utilitarianism
  • Some Definitions for the Theory of Rules
  • Suicide: Some Epistemological Considerations
  • Bibliography of R. M. Chisholm
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects