ABSTRACT
Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program. He is also a pioneer in discussions of moral realism, and has made important contributions to bioethics, the philosophy of human rights and moral responsibility. This book is a tribute to Platts’s pioneering work in these areas, featuring contributions from number of leading scholars of his work from the US, UK and Mexico. It features replies to the individual essays from Platts, as well as a concluding chapter reflecting on his philosophical career from Oxford to Mexico City. Mind, Language and Morality will be of interest to philosophers across a wide range of areas, including ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and philosophy of language.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 9|33 pages
Kantian Neuroscience and Radical Interpretation
section |4 pages
Barry Stroud on the Meaning and Transcendence of Values
section |5 pages
Ralph Walker on an Attempted Alliance Within Moral Philosophy
section |4 pages
Gustavo Ortiz-Millán on the Direction of the Mind
section |4 pages
James Griffin on the Ethics of Equality
section |8 pages
Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero, Larry Laudan and Rodolfo Vázquez on Candidates for Being Human Rights
section |4 pages
Paul F. Snowdon’s Prolegomena to Wittgenstein and Rule-Following
section |5 pages
Jim Hopkins on Theories of Meaning, Mind and the Brain