The possibility of philosophical understanding
Subtitle: the philosophy of Barry Stroud
By: edited by Jason Bridges, Niko Kolodny, and Wai-hung Wong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780195381658
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: Barry Stroud's work has had a profound impact on a very wide array of philosophical topics, but there has heretofore been no book-length treatment of his work. The current collection aims to redress this gap, with 13 essays on Stroud's work, all but one new to this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the question to understand philosophy / Jason Bridges and Niko Kolodny; title: Rethinking Hume's second thoughts about personal identity / Don Garrett; title: External world scepticism and the structure of epistemic entitlement / Michael Williams; title: Stroud and Pyrrhonism / Robert Fogelin; title: Transcendental and circular reasoning / Ernest Sosa; title: Stroud's proposal for removing the threat of skepticism / Jonathan Ellis; title: What the skeptic still can't learn from how we use the word "know" / Wai-hung Wong; title: Inside and outside language : Stroud's nonreductionism about meaning / Hannah Ginsborg; title: Dispositions and rational explanation / Jason Bridges; title: Colours as secondary qualities / John McDowell; title: Intelligible causation / John Campbell; title: Unsettling subjectivism about value / Sarah Stroud; title: Subjectivism and the metaphysics of time / Cheryl Chen.