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Cause, Mind, and Reality

Essays Honoring C.B. Martin

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. John Heil

    1. Department of Philosophy, Davidson College, Davidson, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 47)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. C. B. Martin: A Biographical Sketch

    1. C. B. Martin: A Biographical Sketch

      • J. J. C. Smart
      Pages 1-3

  3. Cause

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. C. B. Martin, Counterfactuals, Causality, and Conditionals

      • D. M. Armstrong
      Pages 7-15

    3. Freedom and Indeterminism

      • Daniel Shaw
      Pages 17-29

  4. Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Intention

      • David Charles
      Pages 33-52

    3. Remembering ‘Remembering’

      • Max Deutscher
      Pages 53-72

    4. The Revival of ‘Fido’-Fido

      • Michael Devitt
      Pages 73-94

    5. Locke’s Ideas, Abstraction, and Substance

      • Ian Hinckfuss
      Pages 95-109

    6. Why Perception is not Singular Reference

      • Brian P. McLaughlin
      Pages 111-120

    7. Low Claim Assertions

      • Ullin T. Place
      Pages 121-135

    8. On Formulating Materialism and Dualism

      • P. F. Snowdon
      Pages 137-158

  5. Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Tense and Existence

      • James Cargile
      Pages 161-172

    3. Propositions and Philosophical Ideas

      • J. M. Hinton
      Pages 173-190

    4. A Puzzle About Ontological Commitment

      • Frank Jackson
      Pages 191-199

    5. Objectivity and Ideology in the Physical and Social Sciences

      • Brian Medlin
      Pages 201-220

    6. Motion and Change of Distance

      • Graham Nerlich
      Pages 221-234

    7. On Being Ontologically Unserious

      • Kai Nielsen
      Pages 235-259
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About this book

T is said that there is no progress in philosophy. The illusion of standing I still, however, arises only when we lose sight of our history and so fail to notice the distance we have travelled. Philosophers nowadays find obvious ideas and themes that, as it happens, emerged slowly and painfully and largely in reaction to prevailing sensibilities. The essays here honour a man to whom present-day philosophy owes much: Charles Burton Martin. In reflecting on my own on-going and somewhat chaotic philosophical education, I find considerable evidence of Charlie Martin's influence. After departing graduate school, one of the first papers I succeeded in publishing consisted of an attack on Martin and Deutscher's 'Remembering'. ' After that, Charlie more or less vanished from my conscious awareness until the winter of 1985, when we appeared together in a colloquium at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Although Charlie was nominally a commentator on a paper I was delivering, his 'comments' contained more philosophy and went considerably beyond the tentative and highly circumscribed thesis I had elected to defend. Whereas my focus had been on a tiny feature of Hilary Putnam's argument against realism, Charlie went straight for the jugular, addressing matters that immediately took us into deep water.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Davidson College, Davidson, USA

    John Heil

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cause, Mind, and Reality

  • Book Subtitle: Essays Honoring C.B. Martin

  • Editors: John Heil

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9734-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-9736-6Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9734-2Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 290

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

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