从形而上学到伦理学：为概念分析辩护

简介

Jackson gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1995 and published them in 1998. He defends conceptual analysis against doubts inspired by Quine: anyone who claims that everything is physical must show how facts about colour, belief or value are entailed by the physical facts – the “location problem” – and that requires knowing what our concepts of these things are, which is the job of conceptual analysis, done by consulting intuitions about possible cases. Jackson combines this with a two-dimensional semantics that distinguishes a priori from a posteriori necessity. Chapters on colour, folk psychology and ethics apply the method; in ethics he defends “moral functionalism”. The approach is often called the Canberra Plan.

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