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A.W. Moore presents a series of essays about the ineliminably anthropocentric nature of a priori thought. He suggests that we humans achieve nothing of real significance in philosophy, ethics, or mathematics except from a human point of view, and hence that all three of these pursuits can be said to betoken 'the human a priori'.

Note biographique

A.W. Moore is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He has held teaching and research positions at University College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge. He is joint editor, with Lucy O'Brien, of the journal Mind. In 2016 he wrote and presented the series A History of the Infinite on BBC Radio 4.

Table des matières

• Preface


• Introduction


• Part I. The Nature, Scope, and Limits of A Priori Sense-Making


• 1: Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections


• 2: The Necessity of the Categories', written jointly with Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson


• 3: What Descartes Ought to Have Thought About Modality'


• 4: Varieties of Sense-Making


• Part II. How We Make Sense in Philosophy


• 5: Sense-Making From a Human Point of View


• 6: Not to be Taken at Face Value


• 7: Carving at The Joints


• 8: The Concern With Truth, Sense, et al.-Androcentric or Anthropocentric?


• Part III. How We Make Sense in Ethics


• 9: A Kantian View of Moral Luck


• 10: On There Being Nothing Else to Think, or Want, or Do


• 11: Conative Transcendental Arguments and the Question Whether There Can Be External Reasons


• 12: Maxims and Thick Ethical Concepts


• 13: Quasi-Realism and Relativism


• 14: From a Point of View


• 15: Williams, Nietzsche, and the Meaninglessness of Immortality


• Part IV. How We Make Sense in Mathematics


• 16: On the Right Track


• 17: Wittgenstein and Infinity


• 18: Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mathematics


• 19: A Problem for Intuitionism: The Apparent Possibility of Performing Infinitely Many Tasks in a Finite Time


• 20: More on "The Philosophical Significance of Gödel's Theorem"

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