From Metaphysics to Ethics

A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

By: Frank Jackson

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Paperback | 1 May 2000

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Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed without it. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion and change, to the philosophy of colour and to ethics. The significance of different kinds of supervenience theses, Kripke and Putnam''s work in the philosophy of modality and language, and the role of intuitions about possible cases receive detailed attention. Jackson concludes with a defence of a version of analytical descriptivism in ethics. In this way the book not only offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also throws fascinating new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations.

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`Jackson does a superb job of showing that conceptual analysis is indispensible in philosophical argumentation and that it has more practitioners than a survey of philosophers' recent remarks on methodology would lead one to suspect. This work is certain to be influential for years to come. Its contributions to philosophy are significant and wide ranging... Most important, in its eloquence and persuasiveness, Jackson's book promises to direct philosophers' attention to much-neglected metaphilosophical issues. Philosophy can only profit from Jackson's challenge - to achieve harmony between its methodological claims and its true practices.' Brie Gertler, Philosophy 71 `In the present climate, any serious work on philosophical methodology is of real interest; when the work is by a philosopher as clear and original as Frank Jackson, it is mandatory reading.' Philosophical Review

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