Moore's paradox : new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person /

G.E. Moore observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers. In the definitive treatment of the famous paradox, Green and Williams explain...

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Other Authors: Green, Mitchell S., Williams, John N. 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and historical context
  • Introduction / Mitchell Green and John N. Williams
  • The all-seeing eye : a blind spot in the history of ideas / Roy Sorensen
  • Moore's paradox and knowledge
  • Moorean absurdity : an epistemological analysis / Claudio de Almeida
  • The normative character of belief / Thomas Baldwin
  • Moore's paradox, Evans's principle, and iterated beliefs / John N. Williams
  • Moore's paradox, belief, and assertion
  • What reflexive pronouns tell us about belief : a new Moore's paradox de se, rationality, and privileged access / Jay David Atlas
  • Moore's paradox and the transparency of belief / Jonathan E. Adler and Bradley Armour-Garb
  • Moore's paradox and consciousness
  • Consciousness, reasons, and Moore's paradox / André Gallois
  • Moorean absurdity and showing what's within / Mitchell Green
  • Arguments from Moore's paradox
  • My philosophical position says and I don't believe / Alan Hájek
  • Moorean pretense / Robert M. Gordon.