Steven Luper-Foy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Luper-Foy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Luper-Foy |
| SIGNATURE | LUPER-FOY S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Morality and the Emotions
The Absurdity of Life
In Absurd' Nagel claims that self-conscious human beings are necessarily absurd, so that to escape absurdity while remaining human we would have to cease being self-conscious. Fifteen years later, in The View From Nowhere,2 he defends the same thesis, supplementing some of his old arguments with a battery of new ones. I want to suggest that Nagel has misdiagnosed, and exaggerated the inescapability of, our absurdity. He does so partly because the…
Belief and rationality
The knower, inside and out
The Causal Indicator Analysis of Knowledge
In this paper I want to describe and motivate an approach to knowledge that I call the Causal Indicator Analysis. My strategy will be to sketch (in Part I) the main features of an adequate account of knowledge, then use my sketch (in Part II) to reveal some of the faults of some of the main analyses defended today. I will be particularly interested in discussing the work of Fred Dretske, whose views have significantly influenced my own. With thes…
Annihilation
Journal Article Annihilation Get access Steven Luper-Foy Steven Luper-Foy Trinity University, San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 148, July 1987, Pages 233–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220396 Published: 01 July 1987
The Causal Indicator Analysis of Knowledge
In this paper I want to describe and motivate an approach to knowledge that I call the Causal Indicator Analysis. My strategy will be to sketch (in Part I) the main features of an adequate account of knowledge, then use my sketch (in Part II) to reveal some of the faults of some of the main analyses defended today. I will be particularly interested in discussing the work of Fred Dretske, whose views have significantly influenced my own. With thes…
The knower, inside and out
The Absurdity of Life
In Absurd' Nagel claims that self-conscious human beings are necessarily absurd, so that to escape absurdity while remaining human we would have to cease being self-conscious. Fifteen years later, in The View From Nowhere,2 he defends the same thesis, supplementing some of his old arguments with a battery of new ones. I want to suggest that Nagel has misdiagnosed, and exaggerated the inescapability of, our absurdity. He does so partly because the…
Annihilation
Journal Article Annihilation Get access Steven Luper-Foy Steven Luper-Foy Trinity University, San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 148, July 1987, Pages 233–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220396 Published: 01 July 1987
The Causal Indicator Analysis of Knowledge
In this paper I want to describe and motivate an approach to knowledge that I call the Causal Indicator Analysis. My strategy will be to sketch (in Part I) the main features of an adequate account of knowledge, then use my sketch (in Part II) to reveal some of the faults of some of the main analyses defended today. I will be particularly interested in discussing the work of Fred Dretske, whose views have significantly influenced my own. With thes…
Annihilation
Journal Article Annihilation Get access Steven Luper-Foy Steven Luper-Foy Trinity University, San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 148, July 1987, Pages 233–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220396 Published: 01 July 1987
The knower, inside and out
Belief and rationality
The Absurdity of Life
In Absurd' Nagel claims that self-conscious human beings are necessarily absurd, so that to escape absurdity while remaining human we would have to cease being self-conscious. Fifteen years later, in The View From Nowhere,2 he defends the same thesis, supplementing some of his old arguments with a battery of new ones. I want to suggest that Nagel has misdiagnosed, and exaggerated the inescapability of, our absurdity. He does so partly because the…
Morality and the Emotions
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy of language (2 works) · Philosophy of science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Absurdity (1 work) · Annihilation (1 work)