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7Philosophical Papers: Volume OneOup Usa. 2006.While well-known for his longer book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's shorter articles have, until now, been less accessible. Collected in two volumes, Philosophical Papers includes articles spanning over 40 years of Unger's long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, this first volume collects work in epistemology and ethics, among other topics.
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1Philosophical relativityRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 175 (1): 103-106. 1985.
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1Living high and letting die. Our illusion of innocenceRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (1): 129-130. 1996.
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Ignorance : a case for scepticismRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 166 (3): 371-372. 1975.
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30Reply to ReviewersPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 159-176. 1992.This book presents, explains and defend an account of our identity, overtime that is both (a) psychologically aimed and (b) physically based. Not advanced as analytic, or as conceptually true, the account is meant to hold "only relative to the general correctness of our contemporary view of the world". Even so, it is explained why influential contemporary thinkers--Lewis, Nozick, Padfit, Shoemaker and others--have "vastly" underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival through …Read more
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Selections from Philosophical RelativityIn Keith DeRose & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Skepticism: a contemporary reader, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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Science and the possibility of philosophyIn S. Phineas Upham & Joshua Harlan (eds.), Philosophers in conversation: interviews from the Harvard review of philosophy, Routledge. 2002.
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254Living high and letting die: our illusion of innocenceOxford University Press. 1996.By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it is not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. What is the source of this lenient assessment? I…Read more
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60Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of InnocencePhilosophical Review 108 (2): 300. 1999.Peter Unger’s book has both substantive and methodological aims. Substantively, it aims to prove the following four claims in the following order: we must, in general, suffer great losses of property to prevent suffering and death; we may, in general, impose such losses on others for the same goals; we may, in general, kill others to prevent more deaths; and we must, in general, kill ourself to prevent more deaths. Methodologically, it aims to show that intuitive judgments about cases that would…Read more
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79On experience and the development of the understandingAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1): 48-56. 1966.
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704Ignorance: A Case for ScepticismOxford University Press. 1975.In these challenging pages, Unger argues for the extreme skeptical view that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have any reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot ever have any emotions about anything: no one can ever be happy or sad about anything. Finally, in this reduction to absurdity of virtually all our supposed thought, he argues that no one can ever believe, or even say, that anything is the case.
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5Philosophical Papers: Volume 1Oxford Up. 2006.While well-known for his longer book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's shorter articles have, until now, been less accessible. Collected in two volumes, Philosophical Papers includes articles spanning over 40 years of Unger's long and fruitful career. Volume two focuses on Unger's important work in metaphysics.