Metaphysics and the good
Subtitle: themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams
By: [edited by] Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen.
Contributors: Newlands, Samuel; Jorgensen, Larry M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780199542680
Subjects: Adams, Robert Merrihew; Philosophy, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen; title: A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams; title: Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman; title: The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson; title: Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom; title: Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit; title: Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. C. Sleigh, Jr; title: Leibniz on final causation / Marleen Rozemond; title: Does efficient causation presuppose final causation?  Aquinas vs. early modern mechanism / Paul Hoffman; title: Herder and Kant on history: their enlightenment faith / Allen Wood; title: Moral obligations and social commands / Susan Wolf; title: Adams on the nature of obligation / Jeffrey Stout; title: The grasshopper, aristotle, Bob Adams, and me / Shelly Kagan.