Pesky Essays on the Logic of Philosophy
This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge, and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold ‘Em poker. An...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
| Series: | Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Knowledge & Justification
- What is Knowing?
- Scales of Epistemic Appraisal
- On Epistemic Preferability
- On Being Unjustified
- “I Should Have Known It!”: Gilbert Ryle and Poker Knowledge
- Philosophy of Religion
- An Agnostic Argument
- “Lucey’s Agnosticism: The Believer’s Reply by Tomis Kapitan
- Theism, Necessity and Invalidity
- Logical Form and the Ontological Argument
- Philosophical Logic
- Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
- A New Counter-Example to Modus Ponens
- Comments on Lucey’s “An Invalid Instance of Modus Ponens” by Ted Sider
- The Ancestral Relation Without Classes
- Laws of Excluded Middle And a Temporal Dilemma
- The Logic of ‘Unless’
- Harry Frankfurt on Why We Care About Truth
- Causality and the Mind
- An Analysis of Causal Contribution; (co-authored with Carol A. Lucey)
- The Testability of the Identity Theory
- On Being Purely Psychological
- “Comments on Lucey’s Paper” by R. M. Chisholm.-Ontological Parasites
- Is There A Set of All Truths?
- The Generalization Argument Defended.-Taxonomies & Teaching
- Rudolf Carnap on False Propositions & Specificity.