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"...these two volumes bring together some excellent papers by one of the greatest contemporary analytic philosophers.... Unger pulls it off with a style and a sense of humour that is inviting to professionals and laymen alike.... Given Unger's wide range of published interests, there is something (if not a few things) in this collection for everyone."--Neil E. Williams, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Unger has always been a very original and independent philosopher,.... Unger's earlier papers are classics partly because of their originality, and partly because they give concise expression to deep and difficult philosophical problems.... in an appealing style. Fortunately, Oxford University Press has recently reprinted Unger's papers in two useful volumes." --Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement
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While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible. These two volumes of Unger's Philosophical Papers include articles spanning more than 35 years of Unger's long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, this first volume collects work in epistemology and ethics, among other topics, while the second volume focuses on metaphysics.
Unger's work has advanced the full spectrum of topics at the heart of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and ethics. Unger advances radical positions, going against the so-called "commonsense philosophy" that has dominated the analytic tradition since its beginnings early in the twentieth century. In epistemology, his articles advance the view that nobody ever knows anything and, beyond that, argue that nobody has any reason to believe anything--and even beyond that, they argue that nobody has any reason to do anything, or even want anything. In metaphysics, his work argues that people do not really exist--and neither do puddles, plants, poodles, and planets. But, as Unger has often changed his favored positions, from one decade to the next, his work also advances the opposite, "commonsense" positions: that there are in fact plenty of people, puddles, plants and planets and, quite beyond that, we know it all to be true. On most major philosophical questions, both of these sides of Unger's significant work are well represented in this major two volume collection.
Unger's vivid writing style, intellectual vitality, and fearlessness in the face of our largest philosophical questions, make these volumes of great interest not only to the philosophical community but to others who might otherwise find contemporary philosophy dry and technical.
Unger's work has advanced the full spectrum of topics at the heart of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and ethics. Unger advances radical positions, going against the so-called "commonsense philosophy" that has dominated the analytic tradition since its beginnings early in the twentieth century. In epistemology, his articles advance the view that nobody ever knows anything and, beyond that, argue that nobody has any reason to believe anything--and even beyond that, they argue that nobody has any reason to do anything, or even want anything. In metaphysics, his work argues that people do not really exist--and neither do puddles, plants, poodles, and planets. But, as Unger has often changed his favored positions, from one decade to the next, his work also advances the opposite, "commonsense" positions: that there are in fact plenty of people, puddles, plants and planets and, quite beyond that, we know it all to be true. On most major philosophical questions, both of these sides of Unger's significant work are well represented in this major two volume collection.
Unger's vivid writing style, intellectual vitality, and fearlessness in the face of our largest philosophical questions, make these volumes of great interest not only to the philosophical community but to others who might otherwise find contemporary philosophy dry and technical.
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Human experience, it may be said, naturally leads us to have a certain view of reality, which I call the view of common sense. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scientifical metaphysic, putative satisfier, amnesiac moron, infinitely deep hierarchy, discriminative expressions, typical vague expression, continuous physical realization, philosophically adequate concept, typical vague terms, drowsy for the first time, stepwise reasoning, future great pain test, discriminative condition, putative table, vagueness condition, sorites arguments, discriminative terms, real choosers, substantial dualism, gradual world, strict survival, other ordinary things, peripheral atom, typical cloud, logical parity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scientiphical Metaphysic, David Lewis, Extensible Qualities, Oxford University Press, Blue Particles, New York, Extensible Quality, Peter Unger, Vegetable Case, Transplant Case, Midwest Studies, Samuel Wheeler, Terence Leichti, Large Red, Small Blues, Bertrand Russell, Basil Blackwell, Donald Davidson, John Tienson, Michael Lockwood, American Philosophical Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Felt Bodily Qualities, Kegan Paul, Kit Fine New!
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Human experience, it may be said, naturally leads us to have a certain view of reality, which I call the view of common sense. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scientifical metaphysic, putative satisfier, amnesiac moron, infinitely deep hierarchy, discriminative expressions, typical vague expression, continuous physical realization, philosophically adequate concept, typical vague terms, drowsy for the first time, stepwise reasoning, future great pain test, discriminative condition, putative table, vagueness condition, sorites arguments, discriminative terms, real choosers, substantial dualism, gradual world, strict survival, other ordinary things, peripheral atom, typical cloud, logical parity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scientiphical Metaphysic, David Lewis, Extensible Qualities, Oxford University Press, Blue Particles, New York, Extensible Quality, Peter Unger, Vegetable Case, Transplant Case, Midwest Studies, Samuel Wheeler, Terence Leichti, Large Red, Small Blues, Bertrand Russell, Basil Blackwell, Donald Davidson, John Tienson, Michael Lockwood, American Philosophical Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Felt Bodily Qualities, Kegan Paul, Kit Fine New!
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- Personal Identity (Great Debates in Philosophy) by Sydney Shoemaker on page 247, page 267, and page 291
- Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks) by Derek Parfit on page 247, page 270, and page 291
- Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds by Stephen P. Schwartz on page 116, and page 176
- Analysis of Matter by Bertrand Russell on page 211, and page 218
- Identity, Consciousness and Value by Peter Unger on page 241, and page 291
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