Analysis and metaphysics : an introduction to philosophy /

All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understa...

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Main Author: Strawson, P. F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Analytical philosophy: two analogies
  • Reduction or connection? Basic concepts
  • Moore and Quine
  • Logic, epistemology, and ontology
  • Sensible experience and material objects
  • Classical empiricism. The inner and the outer. Action and society
  • Truth and knowledge
  • Meaning and understanding: structural semantics
  • Causation and explanation
  • Freedom and necessity.