Overview

The author has worked on most of the main areas of philosophy, notably on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language and ethics. This collection brings together some of his important publications on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, ethics, and induction.

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Author:   Frank Jackson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780415165747

ISBN 10:   0415165741
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   04 June 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Conditionals; Chapter 1 On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals; Chapter 2 Classifying Conditionals I; Chapter 3 Classifying Conditionals II; Chapter 4 Postscript on Truth Conditions and Assertability; Part II Mind; Chapter 5 Epiphenomenal Qualia; Chapter 6 What Mary Didn't Know; Chapter 7 Postscript on Qualia; Chapter 8 Mental Causation I; Chapter 9 Mental Causation without the Language of Thought; Part III Method in Metaphysics; Chapter 10 Metaphysics by Possible Cases; Chapter 11 Armchair Metaphysics; Part IV Ethics and Action Theory; Chapter 12 Weakness of Will; Chapter 13 On The Semantics and Logic of Obligation; Chapter 14 Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection; Part V Induction; Chapter 15 Grue;

Reviews

Frank Jackson is one of the greatest living analytic philosophers, and this fine selection of his major papers vividly illustrates the breadth and depth of his work, ranging from the semantics of conditionals, through three basic issues in the philosophy of mind and another three in ethics, and the methods of metaphysics, to his definitive treatment of the new riddle of induction. No one in modern philosophy writes better or more profoundly about the hardest topics in our subject; and no one who wants to know how to do it could do better than read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the contents of this book. -D.H. Mellor, Cambridge University

Frank Jackson is one of the greatest living analytic philosophers, and this fine selection of his major papers vividly illustrates the breadth and depth of his work, ranging from the semantics of conditionals, through three basic issues in the philosophy of mind and another three in ethics, and the methods of metaphysics, to his definitive treatment of the new riddle of induction. No one in modern philosophy writes better or more profoundly about the hardest topics in our subject; and no one who wants to know how to do it could do better than read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the contents of this book. <br>-D.H. Mellor, Cambridge University <br>

Author Information

Frank Jackosn is Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

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