Identity, Consciousness and Value (Häftad)
avPeter Unger
ISBN: 9780195079173 - UTGIVEN: 1992-07The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why m[...]
Living High and Letting Die (Häftad)
avPeter Unger
ISBN: 9780195108590 - UTGIVEN: 199610By 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[...]
All the Power in the World (Häftad)
avPeter Unger
ISBN: 9780195339345 - UTGIVEN: 2007-11This bold and original work of philosophy presents an exciting new picture of concrete reality. Peter Unger provocatively breaks with what he terms the conservatism of present-day philosophy, and returns to central themes from Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Russell. Wiping the slate clean, Ung[...]
Ignorance (Häftad)
avPeter Unger
ISBN: 9780198244172 - UTGIVEN: 1978-01In this controversial volume (originally published in 1975), Peter Unger suggests that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have a reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot have any realistic emotional ties: it can never be conclusively said that someone[...]
Empty Ideas (Inbunden)
avPeter Unger
ISBN: 9780199330812 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08Peter Unger's provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on[...]
