Anscombe’s Intention: A Guide (Oxford, 2019)
“… a remarkable achievement, worthy of widespread attention." — Jennifer Frey, University of South Carolina
"This is the kind of guide that I will look to in my own work, and that I will recommend to interested graduate students, and that I am likely to use every time I teach a course with Intention.” — Kim Frost, University of California, Riverside “I expect Schwenkler's book to serve as an essential resource for a new generation of readers.” — Berislav Marusic, University of Edinburgh “This meticulous, accessible book will be of great use to students of action theory and readers of Anscombe.” — Kieran Setiya, MIT |
Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know—aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take up the offer? Several philosophers have recently argued that we are in similar situations for more of our decisions than we usually recognize. Are they right? What resources can we draw on to create such situations? Are they enough to satisfy our aims of making the best decisions we can, especially in high stakes situations?
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Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts With a Method for Beginners (2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about as they read. It serves as starting points for both classroom discussion and independent study. The texts cover a wide range of topics drawn from diverse areas of philosophical investigation, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and political philosophy.
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