Author: John Hawthorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: essays, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199291241
ISBN-13: 9780199291243

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Author: John Hawthorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lotteries, knowledge
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-01-29
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199269556
ISBN-13: 9780199269556

Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know certain propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we normally count ourselves as knowing all sorts of things which entail that its holder will not suddenly acquire a large fortune. After providing a number of specific and general characterizations of the puzzle, Hawthorne carefully examines the compet

Author: John Hawthorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lotteries, knowledge
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2006-01-19
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0199287139
ISBN-13: 9780199287130

Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know certain propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we normally count ourselves as knowing all sorts of things which entail that its holder will not suddenly acquire a large fortune. After providing a number of specific and general characterizations of the puzzle, Hawthorne carefully examines the compet

Authors:John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: philosophical, perspectives, volume, annual, linguistics, language
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1405116730
ISBN-13: 9781405116732

Philosophical Perspectives Volume 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, contains over 20 articles from leading philosophers of language and linguists.

Authors:Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: truth, monadic, relativism
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0199560552
ISBN-13: 9780199560554

Relativism has dominated many intellectual circles, past and present, but the twentieth century saw it banished to the fringes of mainstream analytic philosophy. Of late, however, it is making something of a comeback within that loosely configured tradition, a comeback that attempts to capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics. Relativism and Monadic Truth aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to its revival. Doing so requires a proper understanding of the significance of possible worlds semantics, an ex

Authors:Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: possibility, conceivability
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2002-10-03
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0198250908
ISBN-13: 9780198250906

The capacity to represent things to ourselves as possible plays a crucial role both in everyday thinking and in philosophical reasoning; this volume offers much-needed philosophical illumination of conceivability, possibility, and the relations between them.

Authors:Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: possibility, conceivability
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2002-10-03
List price: $164.99
ISBN-10: 0198250894
ISBN-13: 9780198250890

The capacity to represent things to ourselves as possible plays a crucial role both in everyday thinking and in philosophical reasoning; this volume offers much-needed philosophical illumination of conceivability, possibility, and the relations between them.