Socratic Puzzles

by: Nozick, R.

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Socratic puzzles
Authors:Robert Nozick

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

Contents:
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

viii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Socratic Puzzles

by: Nozick, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780674816541 / 978-0-674-81654-1
• ISBN-03: 0674816544 / 0-674-81654-4
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997

Price: 26,12 EURO

1 copy in stock