Peter Unger (1) (1942–)

Autor von Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence

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Peter Unger is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of five previous self-standing books, all currently available from the Oxford University Press: All the Power in the World; Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence; Identity, Consciousness and Value; mehr anzeigen Philosophical Relativity; and Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism. Oxford has also published his Philosophical Papers, a two-volume collection of shorter works previously published elsewhere. weniger anzeigen

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Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (1996) 114 Exemplare

Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy) (1975) 63 Exemplare

Identity, Consciousness and Value (1990) 27 Exemplare

Philosophical Relativity (1984) 19 Exemplare

Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy (2014) 16 Exemplare

All the Power in the World (2006) 12 Exemplare

Philosophical Papers: Volume Two (2006) 6 Exemplare

Philosophical Papers: Volume One: v. 1 (2006) 5 Exemplare

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Epistemology: An Anthology (2000) — Mitwirkender — 186 Exemplare

Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology (2000) — Mitwirkender — 74 Exemplare

Philosophers in wonderland : philosophy and psychical research (1975) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare

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Geburtstag: 1942
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Ausbildung: Swarthmore College (B.S.), Oxford University (D.Phil)

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Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence von Peter Unger

Ungor argues through a large number of thought experiments (or intuition pumps), in a manner that should be convince people with a variety of ethical theories, that we ought to be giving almost all our money to charity. This book is much more accessible and much more action orientated than the average book in philosophy and I think that's too its credit. The book is a polemic in the manner of the authors other works in philosophy.

This is book on ethics that I would be most inclined to lend to a friend.… (mehr)

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