Papers in Logic and Ethics

8vo (22 cm), 233 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj sunned). A posthumous collection edited by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny as the sequel Prior was planning to Papers on Time and Tense at the time of his death. Gathering twenty-two papers from both published and previously unpublished sources, the volume showcases the full range of Prior's philosophical interests and his distinctive gift for bringing modern logical techniques to bear on traditional philosophical problems. The papers range across logic, metaphysics, and ethics, touching on such topics as the ethical copula, the nature of entities and non-entities, Berkeley's philosophy in logical form, proofs of the existence of God, the liar paradox (Epimenides the Cretan), the autonomy of ethics, fatalism and necessity, self-reference in Buridan, oratio obliqua, intentionality and intensionality, Descartes' Cogito, and the nature of possibility. Five papers appear here for the first time. The collection is rounded off with a complete bibliography of Prior's philosophical writings compiled by Olav Flo, making it an indispensable resource for anyone studying one of the twentieth century's most original and wide-ranging analytic philosophers.…