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Informationen zum Autor Frank Jackosn is Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Klappentext This collection brings together some of Frank Jackson's most influential essays on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, and ethics. These have each been revised for this edition, and are presented along with his challenge to orthodoxy on the new riddle of induction. Zusammenfassung Frank Jackson's versatility and range are illustrated by this new collection, which brings together some of his most important publications on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, and ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Conditionals; Chapter 1 On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals; Chapter 2 Classifying Conditionals I; Chapter 3 Classifying Conditionals II; Chapter 4 Postscript on Truth Conditions and Assertability; Part II Mind; Chapter 5 Epiphenomenal Qualia; Chapter 6 What Mary Didn't Know; Chapter 7 Postscript on Qualia; Chapter 8 Mental Causation I; Chapter 9 Mental Causation without the Language of Thought; Part III Method in Metaphysics; Chapter 10 Metaphysics by Possible Cases; Chapter 11 Armchair Metaphysics; Part IV Ethics and Action Theory; Chapter 12 Weakness of Will; Chapter 13 On The Semantics and Logic of Obligation; Chapter 14 Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection; Part V Induction; Chapter 15 Grue;
