From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis [Book Review]

Philosophical Review 109 (3):459 (2000)
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This slim volume is sure to provoke. The topics include physicalism, the theory of color, and metaethics, but the primary focus is metaphilosophical: Jackson aims to defend the use of conceptual analysis as a tool for doing “serious metaphysics.”

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10.2307/2693708

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