The architecture of blame and praise: an interdisciplinary investigation

In this book, David Shoemaker investigates the complicated nature of blame and praise--teasing out their many varieties while defending a general symmetry between them. The book provides a thoroughgoing normative grounding for all types of blame and praise, one that does not appeal in any fashion to...

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1. Verfasser: Shoemaker, David 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York; Oxford Oxford University Press [2024]
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:In this book, David Shoemaker investigates the complicated nature of blame and praise--teasing out their many varieties while defending a general symmetry between them. The book provides a thoroughgoing normative grounding for all types of blame and praise, one that does not appeal in any fashion to desert or the metaphysics of free will.
Intro -- Truth Without Truths -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Alethic Nihilism Against Paradox -- 1: Introducing alethic nihilism -- 1.1 Propositions -- 1.2 Alethic nihilism -- 1.3 Alethic nihilism compared with deflationism -- 2: Alethic nihilism against paradox -- 2.1 Nihilism against the Liar -- 2.2 Nihilism against many other paradoxes -- 2.3 Nihilism against paradoxes of underdetermination -- 3: The superiority of the nihilist solutions to the paradoxes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Nihilism against 'missing proposition' responses to the paradoxes -- 3.3 Nihilism against non-classical responses to the paradoxes -- 3.4 Moderate restrictionism versus radical restrictionism -- 3.5 Nihilism's immunity from revenge -- Part II: Alethic Nihilism as an Error Theory -- 4: Alethic nihilism as an error theory -- 4.1 Realism and anti-realism -- 4.2 Truth and realism -- 4.3 Objections to error theories (i): radicality -- 4.4 Objections to error theories (ii): indispensability arguments -- 4.5 Advantages of error theories (i): ontological -- 4.6 Advantages of error theories (ii): epistemological -- Part III: In Defence of Alethic Nihilism -- 5: Truth in philosophy -- 5.1 Truth in philosophical theories and definitions -- 5.2 Truth and assertion -- 5.3 Fake news and post-truth -- 6: Further objections to nihilism -- 6.1 Unintelligible quantification? -- 6.2 The Principle of Uniform Solution -- 6.3 The Satisfier paradox -- Part IV: Alethic Nihilism and Its Rivals -- 7: Inconsistency theories -- 7.1 What is an inconsistency theory? -- 7.2 Scharp's inconsistency theory -- 7.3 Eklund's inconsistency theory -- 8: Primitivism -- 8.1 Can inconsistent concepts be analysed? -- 8.2 The omnipresence argument -- 8.3 The foundationalist argument -- 8.4 The argument from logical apparatus -- 9: Fictionalism.
Beschreibung:xxvi, 185 Seiten
ISBN:9780198915836

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