Contrastivism in philosophy
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Martijn Blaauw
Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy -- 39
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780415878609
Subjects: Contrastivism (Philosophy)
Description: Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will, moral luck, Bayesian confirmation theory, causation, and explanation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Contrastivism in Philosophy / Martijn Blaauw; title: Contrastive Explanation / Christopher Hitchcock; title: Causal Contextualisms / Jonathan Schaffer; title: Contrastive Bayesianism / Branden Fitelson; title: Contrastive Belief / Martijn Blaauw; title: Contrastive Knowledge / Adam Morton; title: Contrastive Semantics for Deontic Modals / Justin Snedegar; title: Free Contrastivism / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; title: Luck and Fortune in Moral Evaluation / Julia Driver.