Essays in quasi-realism - Blackburn, Simon (Oxford University Press, 1993)
Includes bibliographical references and index
I. - Metaphysics - Truth, realism and the regulation of theory -- - Knowledge, truth, and reliability -- - Morals and modals -- - Opinions and chances -- - Hume and thick connexions -- - II. - Ethics - Moral realism -- - Supervenience revisited -- - Errors and the phenomenology of value -- - How to be an ethical anti-realist -- - Attitudes and contents -- - Just causes -- - III. Mind and matter - The individual strikes back -- - Losing your mind : physics, identity, and folk burglar prevention -- - Filling in the space
This volume collects together the author's pioneering essays on "quasi-realism", a philosophical position he first introduced in 1980 which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics