Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter WinchThe voices in this volume, those of philosophers from Britain, Europe, America and Australia, speak in different tones of sumpathy and criticism of Winch and his conception of human conditioning. |
Contents
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2 INTELLIGIBILITY AND THE IMAGINATION | 13 |
3 NATURALISM AND PRETERNATURAL CHANGE | 32 |
4 WITTGENSTEIN ON MAKING HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC CLEAR | 42 |
5 UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES AND PARTICULAR DECISIONS AND FORMS OF LIFE | 72 |
6 MORAL NECESSITY | 102 |
7 ETHICAL INDIVIDUALITY | 118 |
8 HOW MANY LEGS? | 149 |
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