This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett. These essays are followed by four short dialogues that emphasize and summarize some of the main points of the essays and discuss new perspectives that have emerged since their original publication.
The volume covers topics on the metaphysics of time, the nature of identity, and the nature and importance of persons and human beings. The chapters constitute the fruits of almost four decades of philosophical research, from Brian’s two award-winning essays, published in
Analysis in 1983 and
The Philosophical Quarterly in 1992, to his latest ideas about Fatalism and the Grandfather Paradox.
This book will be of interest to students and professional philosophers in the field of analytic philosophy.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Part I. Time. 1. ‘Thank Goodness that’s Over” Revisited.- 2. Experience and Time.- 3. Max Black and Backward Causation.- 4. Dummett on Reasons to Act and Bringing about the Past.- 5. Dummett on Mc Taggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time.- 6. A Note on the Grandfather Paradox.- 7. Bulletproof Grandfathers, David Lewis, and ‘Can’t’-Judgements.- 8. A Dilemma for Eternalists.- Part II. Identity. 9. Identity and Extrinsicness.- 10. Best Candidate Theories and Identity.- 11 Possible Worlds and Identity.- 12. Vague Identity and Vague Objects.- 13. More on Rigidity and Scope.- 14. Enduring Endurantism.- 15. Identity of Truth-Conditions.- Part III. The Self. 16. Some Notes on Animalism.- 17. Persons and Human Beings.- 18. The Story of ‘I’: Comments on Rudder-Baker’s Constitution View of Persons.- 19. Personal Identity and Extrinsicness.- 20. Personal Identity and Reductionism.- 21. Bermúdez on Self-Consciousness.- 22. Anscombe on ‘I’.- 23. Wittgenstein on the First-Person.- 24. Persons and Values.- Part IV. Afterthoughts. 25. About Time.- 26. Affecting the Past.- 27. Of Identity.- 28. On Personal Identity.- Index.
Circa l’autore
Brian Garrett is a Professor at the School of Philosophy, The Australian National University. He specializes in analytic philosophy and metaphysics. He is the author of
What is this thing called metaphysics? (Routledge, 2006; 2011; 2016),
Elementary Logic (Acumen, 2012), and
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness (Routledge, 1998). He has published articles in top philosophy journals, like
Mind,
Analysis,
The Philosophical Quarterly, and the
Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Jeremiah Joven Joaquin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, where he is also a Research Fellow at the Southeast Asian Research Center and Hub and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Language Technologies. He specializes in metaphysics and logic. Presently, he is the President of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines and the founding Secretary-General of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines.
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