Author

Publication

1981 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

191,000 words, Guess

Page Count

764 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • ISBN-139780674664784
  • Goodreads2350976
  • Library of Congress Control Number81001369
  • OCLC Control Number7283862
  • Better World Books9780674664487
  • Open LibraryOL4255984M

Classifications

  • DDC191
  • LCCB53 .N7
  • LCCB53.N7
and 1 more
  • LCCB53 .N7 1981

Description

In this highly original work, Robert Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified philosophical perspective. It is many years since a major work in English has ranged so widely over philosophy's fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life. Writing in a distinctive and personal philosophical voice, Mr. Nozick presents a new mode of philosophizing. In place of the usual semi-coercive philosophical goals of proof, of forcing people to accept conclusions, this book seeks philosophical explanations and understanding, and thereby stays truer to the original motivations for being interested in philosophy. -- Description from http://www.amazon.com (April 11, 2012).

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Philosophical explanationsHarvard University Press1981-01-01

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