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Metaphysics and the Good
Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams
Edited by Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen
432 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954268-0
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Hardback
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08 January 2009
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- Festschrift for one of the world's leading philosophers
- All essays published here for the first time
- Emminent team of contributors
Throughout his philosophical career at Michigan, UCLA, Yale, and Oxford, Robert Merrihew Adams's wide-ranging contributions have deeply shaped the structure of debates in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, and ethics. Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams provides, for the first time, a collection of original essays by leading philosophers dedicated to exploring many of the facets of Adams's thought, a philosophical outlook that combines Christian theism, neo-Platonism, moral realism, metaphysical idealism, and a commitment to both historical sensitivity and rigorous analytic engagement. Tied together by their aim of
exploring, expanding, and experimenting with Adams's views, these eleven essays are coupled with an intellectual autobiography by Adams himself that was commissioned especially for this volume. As the introduction to the volume explains, the purpose of Metaphysics and the Good is to explore Adams's work in the very manner that he prescribes for understanding the ideas of others. By experimenting with Adams's conclusions, "pulling a string here to see what moves over there, so to speak", as Adams puts it, our authors throw into greater relief what makes Adams such an original and stimulating philosopher. In doing so, these essays contribute not only to the exploration of Adams's continuing interests, but they also advance original and important philosophical insights of their
own.Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy
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Edited by Samuel Newlands, University of Notre Dame, and Larry M. Jorgensen, Valparaiso University Contributors:
Robert Merrihew Adams, Oxford University.
Paul Hoffman, University of California, Riverside.
Larry M. Jorgensen, Valparaiso University.
Shelly Kagan, Yale University.
Michael Nelson, University of California, Riverside.
Samuel Newlands, University of Notre Dame.
Derk Pereboom, Cornell University.
Marleen Rozemond, University of Toronto.
R. C. Sleigh, Jr, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Houston Smit, University
of Arizona.
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University.
Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Allen W. Wood, Stanford University.
Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University.
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"impressive... The volume as a whole is an apt tribute to the work of Robert Merrihew Adams, whose masterly scholarship and fertile philosophical insight are likely to attract close attention for a considerable time to come." - John Cottingham, The Philosophical Quaterly
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Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen: Introduction
1: Robert Merrihew Adams: A Philosophical Autobiography
2: Dean Zimmerman: Yet Another Anti-Molinist Argument
3: Michael Nelson: The Contingency of Existence
4: Derk Pereboom: Consciousness and Introspective Inaccuracy
5: Houston Smit: Kant on Apriority and the Spontaneity of Cognition
6: R. C. Sleigh, Jr.: Moral Necessity in Leibniz's Account of Human Freedom
7: Marleen Rozemond: Leibniz on Final Causation
8: Paul Hoffman: Does Efficient Causation Presuppose Final Causation? Aquinas vs. Early Modern Mechanism
9: Allen Wood: Herder and Kant on History: Their Enlightenment Faith
10: Susan Wolf: Moral Obligations and Social Commands
11: Jeffrey Stout: Adams on the Nature of Obligation
12: Shelly Kagan: The Grasshopper, Aristotle, Bob Adams, and Me
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