Metaphysics and the good [electronic resource] : themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams / edited by Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 416 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 191 22
LOC classification:
  • B791 .M454 2009eb
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Contents:
Introduction / Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen -- A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman -- The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson -- Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom -- Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit -- Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. C. Sleigh, Jr -- Leibniz on final causation / Marleen Rozemond -- Does efficient causation presuppose final causation? Aquinas vs. early modern mechanism / Paul Hoffman -- Herder and Kant on history: their enlightenment faith / Allen Wood -- Moral obligations and social commands / Susan Wolf -- Adams on the nature of obligation / Jeffrey Stout -- The grasshopper, aristotle, Bob Adams, and me / Shelly Kagan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-411) and index.

Introduction / Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen -- A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman -- The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson -- Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom -- Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit -- Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. C. Sleigh, Jr -- Leibniz on final causation / Marleen Rozemond -- Does efficient causation presuppose final causation? Aquinas vs. early modern mechanism / Paul Hoffman -- Herder and Kant on history: their enlightenment faith / Allen Wood -- Moral obligations and social commands / Susan Wolf -- Adams on the nature of obligation / Jeffrey Stout -- The grasshopper, aristotle, Bob Adams, and me / Shelly Kagan.

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