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Title
Socratic puzzles / Robert Nozick.
Author
ISBN
0674816536 (alk. paper)
9780674816534 (alk. paper)
0674816544
9780674816541
9780674816534 (alk. paper)
0674816544
9780674816541
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Language
English
Description
viii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
9780674816541
Call Number
191 S678n 1997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35792223
(OCoLC)35792223
(OCoLC)35792223
Summary
Comprising essays and philosophical fictions, classics and new work, the book ranges from Socrates to W.V. Quine, from the implications of an Israeli kibbutz to the flawed arguments of Ayn Rand. Nozick considers the figure of Socrates himself as well as the Socratic method (why is it a method of getting at the truth?). Many of these essays bring classic methods to bear on new questions about choice. How should you choose in a disconcerning situation ("Newcomb's Problem") when your decisions are completely predictable? Why do threats and not offers typically coerce our choices? How do we make moral judgments when we realize that our moral principles have exceptions? Other essays present new approaches to familiar intellectual puzzles, from the stress on simplicity in scientific hypotheses to the tendency of intellectuals to oppose capitalism.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-390) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Choice and Utility. 1. Coercion. 2. Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice. 3. Reflections on Newcomb's Problem. 4. Interpersonal Utility Theory. 5. On Austrian Methodology
Philosophy and Methodology. 6. Socratic Puzzles. 7. Experience, Theory, and Language. 8. Simplicity as Fall-Out. 9. Invisible-Hand Explanations
Ethics and Politics. 10. Moral Complications and Moral Structures. 11. On the Randian Argument. 12. Weighted Voting and "One-Man, One-Vote"
Discussions and Reviews. 13. Goodman, Nelson, on Merit, Aesthetic. 14. Who Would Choose Socialism? 15. Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? 16. The Characteristic Features of Extremism. 17. War, Terrorism, Reprisals
Drawing Some Moral Lines. 18. Do Animals Have Rights?
Philosophical Fictions. 19. Fiction. 20. R.S.V.P.
A Story. 21. Testament. 22. Teleology.
Philosophy and Methodology. 6. Socratic Puzzles. 7. Experience, Theory, and Language. 8. Simplicity as Fall-Out. 9. Invisible-Hand Explanations
Ethics and Politics. 10. Moral Complications and Moral Structures. 11. On the Randian Argument. 12. Weighted Voting and "One-Man, One-Vote"
Discussions and Reviews. 13. Goodman, Nelson, on Merit, Aesthetic. 14. Who Would Choose Socialism? 15. Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? 16. The Characteristic Features of Extremism. 17. War, Terrorism, Reprisals
Drawing Some Moral Lines. 18. Do Animals Have Rights?
Philosophical Fictions. 19. Fiction. 20. R.S.V.P.
A Story. 21. Testament. 22. Teleology.
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