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Moore's Paradox
New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person
Edited by Mitchell S. Green and John N. Williams
272 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928279-1
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Hardback
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11 January 2007
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- Impressive line-up of excellent contributors
- Illuminates numerous areas of contemporary philosophy
- Includes an introductory survey accessible to non-specialists
G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Moore calls it a 'paradox' that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition. Ludwig Wittgenstein was fascinated by Moore's example, and the absurdity of Moore's saying was intensively discussed in the mid-20th century. Yet the source of the absurdity has remained elusive, and its recalcitrance has led researchers in recent decades to address it with greater
care.
In this definitive treatment of the problem of Moorean absurdity Green and Williams survey the history and relevance of the paradox and leading approaches to resolving it, and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area.
Contributors
Jonathan Adler, Bradley Armour-Garb, Jay D. Atlas, Thomas Baldwin, Claudio de Almeida, André Gallois, Robert Gordon, Mitchell Green, Alan Hájek, Roy Sorensen, John WilliamsReadership: Scholars and students of philosophy
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Edited by Mitchell S. Green, University of Virginia, and John N. Williams, Singapore Management University Contributors:
Mitchell Green
John Williams
Roy Sorensen
Claudio de Almeida
Thomas Baldwin
Jay D. Atlas
Jonathan Adler
Bradley Armour-Garb
André Gallois
Alan Hájek
Robert Gordon
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"this very useful book . . . contains diagnoses, dismissals, and displays of the Moorean challenge. And it serves a well-defined philosophical purpose, gathering together a variety of views as to what Moore was really revealing. It does this well." - Stephen Hetherington, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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I. Introduction and Historical Context
Mitchell Green and John Williams: Introduction
Roy Sorensen: The All-Seeing Eye: A History of Moore's Paradox
II. Moore's Paradox and Knowledge
Claudio de Almeida: Moorean Absurdity: An Epistemological Analysis
Thomas Baldwin: The Normative Character of Belief
John Williams: Moore's Paradoxes, Evans's Principle and Iterated Belief
III. Moore's Paradox, Belief, and Assertion
Jay D. Atlas: What Reflexive Pronouns Tell Us about Belief - A New Moore's Paradox De Se, Rationality, and Privileged Access
Jonathan Adler and Bradley Armour-Garb: Moore's Paradox and the Transparency of Belief
IV. Moore's Paradox and Consciousness
André Gallois: Consciousness, Reasons, and Moore's Paradox
Mitchell Green: Moorean Absurdity and Showing What's Within
V. Arguments from Moore's Paradox
Alan Hájek: My Philosophical Position Says 'p' and I Don't Believe 'p'
Robert Gordon: Moorean Pretence
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