Selected Papers: Volume I: Logic and Knowledge
J L Mackie author Joan and Penelope Mackie editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:22nd Aug '85
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This collection of John Mackie's papers on topics in epistemology, some of which have not previously been published, deal with such issues as: incorrigible empirical statements; rationalism and empiricism; the philosophy of John Anderson; self-refutation; Plato's theory of idea; ideological explanation; problems of intentionality; Popper's third world;; mind, brain, and causation; Newcomb's Paradox and the direction of causation; induction; causation in concept, knowledge, and reality; absolutism; Locke and representative perception; and anti-realisms.
These two volumes contain a remarkable collection of essays on a remarkably wide range of subjects....Taken together, the two volumes disclose an astonishing versatile and inventive philosophical min? * one that is also clearheaded, fair, and unusually learned.International Studies of Philosophy *
ISBN: 9780198246794
Dimensions: 224mm x 142mm x 20mm
Weight: 432g
258 pages