1st Edition

Value and Understanding Essays for Peter Winch

By Raimond Gaita Copyright 1990
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    302 Pages
    by Routledge

    The voices in this volume, those of philosophers from Britain, Europe, America and Australia, speak in different tones of sumpathy and criticism of Winch and his conception of human conditioning.

    Chapter 1 ON ‘CEASING TO EXIST’, NORMAN MALCOLM; Chapter 2 INTELLIGIBILITY AND THE IMAGINATION, GRAEME MARSHALL; Chapter 3 NATURALISM AND PRETERNATURAL CHANGE, R. F. HOLLAND; Chapter 4 WITTGENSTEIN ON MAKING HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC CLEAR, FRANK CIOFFI; Chapter 5 UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES AND PartICULAR DECISIONS AND FORMS OF LIFE, KARL-OTTO APEL; Chapter 6 ON MORAL NECESSITY, LARS HERTZBERG; Chapter 7 ETHICAL INDIVIDUALITY, RAIMOND GAITA; Chapter 8 HOW MANY LEGS?, CORA DIAMOND; Chapter 9 ‘ETHICAL REWARD AND PUNISHMENT’, RUSH RHEES; Chapter 10 SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND THE REALITY OF GOOD AND EVIL, ?LHAM D?LMAN; Chapter 11 THE PRESUMPTION OF THEORY, D.Z. PHILLIPS; Chapter 12 THE FORM OF THE GOOD, TRADITION AND ENQUIRY, ALASDAIR MACINTYRE; Chapter 13 WINCH ON THE UNITY OF WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY, DAN RASHID MAIN PUBLICATIONS INDEX;

    Biography

    Raimond Gaita