PHILOSOPHICLA RELATIVITY.

Unger, Peter.

ISBN 10: 0816612331 / ISBN 13: 9780816612338

Published by University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 1984., 1984

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1st edition. 8vo. x + [133pp.] Original maroon boards lettered in silver. Very good. ISBN 0816612331 US$10.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PHILOSOPHICLA RELATIVITY.
• Publisher: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 1984.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816612331
• ISBN 13: 9780816612338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis

In this short but meaty book, Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to central problems in philosophy. As Unger hypothesizes, many of these problems are unanswerable, including the problems of knowledge and scepticism, the problems of free will, and problems of causation and explanation. In each case, he argues, we arrive at one answer only relative to an assumption about the meaning of key terms, terms like "know" and like "cause," even while we arrive at an opposite answer relative to quite different assumptions, but equally arbitrary assumptions, about what the key terms mean.

About the Author

Peter Unger is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Ignorance (OUP 1975, 2002), Identity, Consciousness, and Value (OUP 1990), and Living High and Letting Die (1996)