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63Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic PhilosophyOup Usa. 2014.During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly.
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The Mental Problems of the ManyIn Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 1, Oxford University Press Uk. 2004.
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542The Mental Problems of the ManyIn Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 195-222. 2004.
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7Reply to ReviewersIdentity, Consciousness and ValuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 159. 1992.
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58Comments on Living High and Letting DieLiving High and Letting Die (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 195. 1999.
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71Precis of Living High and Letting DieLiving High and Letting Die (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 173. 1999.
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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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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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87Reply 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