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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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539The 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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A defence of SkepticismIn Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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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, Oup Usa. 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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154The mystery of the physical and the matter of qualitiesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1). 1998.For some fifty years now, nearly all work in mainstream analytic philosophy has made no serious attempt to understand the _nature of_ _physical reality,_ even though most analytic philosophers take this to be all of reality, or nearly all. While we've worried much about the nature of our own experiences and thoughts and languages, we've worried little about the nature of the vast physical world that, as we ourselves believe, has them all as only a small part