Good as Usual
anti-exceptionalist essays on values, norms, and action
$111.51
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2025
Summary
Good as Usual: Reclaiming Norms and Values in a Realistic World
Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. Timothy Williamson shows that, once we throw out those preconceived and outdated ideas, we can understand moral and evaluative features of reality as similar t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192888877 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192888870 |
| Author: | Timothy Williamson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 160mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson is Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor at Yale University. He was formerly the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University and before that Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, and as a visitor at MIT, Princeton, the Australian National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He has published Identity and Discrimination (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990), Vagueness (Routledge, 1994), Knowledge and its Limits (Clarendon Press, 2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Modal Logic as Metaphysics (OUP, 2013), Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong (OUP, 2015), Suppose and Tell (OUP, 2020), Debating the A Priori (with Paul Boghossian, OUP, 2020), and many articles on logic and philosophy.
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