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Moore's Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person

Moore's Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person


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G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Moore calls it a 'paradox' that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition. Ludwig Wittgenstein was fascinated by Moore's example, and the absurdity of Moore's saying was intensively discussed in the mid-20th century. Yet the source of the absurdity has remained elusive, and its recalcitrance has led researchers in recent decades to address it with greater care. In this definitive treatment of the problem of Moorean absurdity Green and Williams survey the history and relevance of the paradox and leading approaches to resolving it, and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area. Contributors Jonathan Adler, Bradley Armour-Garb, Jay D. Atlas, Thomas Baldwin, Claudio de Almeida, André Gallois, Robert Gordon, Mitchell Green, Alan Hájek, Roy Sorensen, John Williams

Table of Contents:
I. Introduction and Historical Context Mitchell Green and John Williams: Introduction Roy Sorensen: The All-Seeing Eye: A History of Moore's Paradox II. Moore's Paradox and Knowledge Claudio de Almeida: Moorean Absurdity: An Epistemological Analysis Thomas Baldwin: The Normative Character of Belief John Williams: Moore's Paradoxes, Evans's Principle and Iterated Belief III. Moore's Paradox, Belief, and Assertion Jay D. Atlas: What Reflexive Pronouns Tell Us about Belief - A New Moore's Paradox De Se, Rationality, and Privileged Access Jonathan Adler and Bradley Armour-Garb: Moore's Paradox and the Transparency of Belief IV. Moore's Paradox and Consciousness André Gallois: Consciousness, Reasons, and Moore's Paradox Mitchell Green: Moorean Absurdity and Showing What's Within V. Arguments from Moore's Paradox Alan Hájek: My Philosophical Position Says 'p' and I Don't Believe 'p' Robert Gordon: Moorean Pretence

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this very useful book . . . contains diagnoses, dismissals, and displays of the Moorean challenge. And it serves a well-defined philosophical purpose, gathering together a variety of views as to what Moore was really revealing. It does this well.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199282791
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 019928279X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2007
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 506 gr


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