Practical tortoise raising: and other philosophical essays

New York: Oxford University Press (2010)
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Practical philosophy and ethics -- Practical tortise raising -- Truth, beauty, and goodness -- Dilemmas: dithering, plumping, and grief -- Group minds and expressive harm -- Trust, cooperation, and human psychology -- Must we weep for sentimentalism? -- Through thick and thin -- Perspectives, fictions, errors, play -- The steps from doing to saying -- Success semantics -- Wittgenstein's irrealism -- Circles, finks, smells, and biconditionals -- The absolute conception: Putnam vs. Williams -- Julius Caesar and George Berkeley play leapfrog -- The majesty of reason -- Fiction and conviction.

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Fiction and Conviction

This chapter discusses Bernard Williams's treatment of Herodotus, and argues that the issue of distinguishing use of a fictional story from belief in what is mentioned in the fiction is much more complex than it appears. It discusses the well-known indeterminacies in interpreting religious... see more

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