a guide Blackburn, Simon. creator text New York Oxford University Press 2005 monographic eng

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xxi, 238 pages 21 cm Faith, belief, and reason -- Cliffordd's Duties -- Will and Passion in James -- Fiction and Myth -- Kinds of Animation -- Man the measure -- Turning the Tables: the Recoil Argument -- Modern Judo -- The Variation of Subjectivities -- The Moving Bull's-eye -- Doing it Ourselves -- Ishmael's problem and the delights of keeping quiet -- Who Tells the Tale? -- A Gestalt Switch -- You Tell Me, or Down with Pilate -- Moral Relativism -- Man the Measurer -- Summary -- Nietzsche : the arch debunker -- Facts or Interpretations? -- Twilight of the Idols -- Perspectivism -- Adequate Words -- Heraclitus and the Flux -- The Darwinian Element -- The possibility of philosophy -- Getting Puzzled -- Eliminativism -- Realism -- Deconstructing the Issue -- The Constructivist Corner -- The Example of Wittgenstein -- Observation and truth : from Locke to Rorty -- Paradise Lost -- First Impressions -- Holism -- Davidson's Mantle -- Rorty's talking World -- Keeping our Feet on the Ground -- Interlude: Law, Tennis and the Coffee-house -- A Political Message -- Realism as science; realism about science -- No Miracles -- Science Red in Tooth and Claw -- Explaining from Within -- Animation and Belief Again -- Underdetermination -- Historians and others -- Conceptual Schemes -- Mind Reading -- Mirroring -- Infirmities -- Collectives and their Histories -- Peace Breaks Out Simon Blackburn Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. Truth Filosofía BC 171 .B58 2005 9780195315806 DCL 231031 eng