David Wiggins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3873802 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Wiggins |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Wiggins |
| ASSINATURA | WIGGINS D |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Deliberation and Practical Reason
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Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis
This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. The book opens with a summary but selective account of a century’s work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late twentieth century…
Continuants
Continuants
The Introduction briefly traces the author's thoughts about identity from 1967 to 2001 and explains how Chapter I continues his sortalist approach to familiar questions—the relation of the zygote to the human being, the ship of Theseus, and Shoemaker's Brown-Brownson case. It explains the author's Fregean usage of the words 'concept' and 'conception'. Section 5 distinguishes philosophical realism from metaphysical realism. Philosophical realism i…
An Indefinibilist cum Normative View of Truth and the Marks of Truth
Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 2008, given by David Wiggins, a British philosopher.
What is the Order Among the Varieties of Goodness? A Question Posed by von Wright; and a Conjecture Made by Aristotle
The great variousness and plurality of goodness has given comfort to general scepticism about values and a multitude of metaethical attitudes or predilections. But is this variousness and plurality really the hotch-potch it has appeared? The paper recapitulates and expands von Wright's typology of the varieties of goodness and looks to explain the order or system that underlies the phenomena by developing and extending a conjecture of Aristotle's…
Objectivity in Ethics; Two Difficulties, Two Responses
The paper, based on the H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture in Jurisprudence and Moral Philosophy, delivered in Oxford on 11th May 2004, sets out to answer two difficulties which the late J. L. Mackie proposed (in his book Ethics: Inventing Right & Wrong) against the idea of objectivity in ethics. These were (1) the metaphysical peculiarity (‘queerness’) of values and obligations and (2) the ‘well known variation in moral codes from one society to anoth…
Précis of Sameness and Substance Renewed
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Sameness and Substance Renewed
In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity aga…
II – David Wiggins
Evans was not wrong (i maintain) to say that the senses of genuine proper names invoke and require objects. Names in fiction or hypothesis mimic such names. Pace Evans, Sainsbury and free logicians, proper names are scopeless. (Evans’s ‘Julius’ is not a name.) Names create a presumption of existential generalization. In sentences such as ‘Vulcan does not really exist’, that presumption is bracketed. The sentence specifies by reference to story or…
Conditionals
Needs, Values, Truth
Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, David Wiggins; they are drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author passes to and fro between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language. The following themes are prominent: the elucidation of the ideas of truth, objec…
Deliberation and Practical Reason
In Book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle treats a restricted and technical notion of deliberation, which makes it unnecessary for him to consider anything but technical or so¬ called productive examples of practical reason. It is not surprising in the context of Book 3 that deliberation is never of ends but always of means. When he came to write Books 6 and 7of the Nicomachean Ethics and De Anima 3.7, Aristotle analysed a much less restricte…
Claims of Need
It has been felt for a long time that there must be some intimate connection between the needs of human beings and their abstract rights. H.L.A. Hart was giving voice to a strong and widespread intuition when he wrote: A concept of legal rights limited to those cases where the law... respects the choice of individuals would be too narrow. For there is a form of the moral criticism of law which ... is inspired by regard for the needs of individual…
Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life
Even now, in an age not much given to mysticism, there are people who ask ‘What is the meaning of life?’ Not a few of them make the simple ‘unphilosophical’ assumption that there is something to be known here. (One might say that they are ‘cognitivists’ with regard to this sort of question.) And most of these same people make the equally unguarded assumption that the whole issue of life’s meaning presupposes some positive answer to the question w…
The Right and the Good and W. D. Ross's Criticism of Consequentialism
David Ross made the first sustained attack on Moore's agathistic utilitarianism or ethical neutralism – the first attack, that is, on a consequentialism purified of ethical naturalism. Ross started out with an important idea about the difference (in the sphere of action) between the right and the good, and a good appreciation of the dialectical situation about consequentialism. His attack, based on the personal character of duty, is greatly hampe…
Needs, values, truth
Sortal Concepts
Categorical Requirements
Journal Article Categorical Requirements: Kant and Hume on the Idea of Duty Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins Birkbeck College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 January 1991, Pages 83–106, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19917413 Published: 09 December 2014
XIV—Verbs and Adverbs, and Some Other Modes of Grammatical Combination
The Sense and Reference of Predicates
Journal Article The Sense and Reference of Predicates: a Running Repair to Frege’s Doctrine and a Plea for the Copula Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 311–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218763 Published: 01 July 1984
Heraclitus' conceptions of flux, fire and material persistence
Even when they are most worthy of amazement, things of daily occurrence pass us by unnoticed.Seneca, Quaestiones Naturales 7.1.1
On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time
What is the Order Among the Varieties of Goodness? A Question Posed by von Wright; and a Conjecture Made by Aristotle
The great variousness and plurality of goodness has given comfort to general scepticism about values and a multitude of metaethical attitudes or predilections. But is this variousness and plurality really the hotch-potch it has appeared? The paper recapitulates and expands von Wright's typology of the varieties of goodness and looks to explain the order or system that underlies the phenomena by developing and extending a conjecture of Aristotle's…
The Sense and Reference of Predicates
Journal Article The Sense and Reference of Predicates: a Running Repair to Frege’s Doctrine and a Plea for the Copula Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 311–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218763 Published: 01 July 1984
Ethics, Value and Reality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ethics, Value and Reality.. BY Aurel Kolnai Bernard Williams David Wiggins. (London, The Athlono Press 1977. Pp. xxv + 251. Price £9) D. Z. Phillips D. Z. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 112, July 1978, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218854 Published: 01 July 1978
The Right and the Good and W. D. Ross's Criticism of Consequentialism
David Ross made the first sustained attack on Moore's agathistic utilitarianism or ethical neutralism – the first attack, that is, on a consequentialism purified of ethical naturalism. Ross started out with an important idea about the difference (in the sphere of action) between the right and the good, and a good appreciation of the dialectical situation about consequentialism. His attack, based on the personal character of duty, is greatly hampe…
Précis of Sameness and Substance Renewed
Essentialism, continuity, and identity
On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time
Sentence Meaning, Negation, and Plato’s Problem of Non-Being
An analysis of Sophist 236E ff. The sentential variant of the problem of non-being in dialogues earlier than Theaetetus and Sophist. II. The display theory of sentence meaning as an escape from Plato's problem of false judgement. The theory's inability to accommodate negation. III. Plato's analytical approach to the problem of sentence-sense in Sophist, and anticipations of this in Cratylus and Theaetetus. IV. Relevant points from the discussion …
Essentialism, continuity, and identity
Vi Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness
Ethics, Value and Reality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ethics, Value and Reality.. BY Aurel Kolnai Bernard Williams David Wiggins. (London, The Athlono Press 1977. Pp. xxv + 251. Price £9) D. Z. Phillips D. Z. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 112, July 1978, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218854 Published: 01 July 1978
Deliberation and Practical Reason
Ethics, Value and Reality
Wiggins' Second Thoughts on Identity
Journal Article Wiggins’ Second Thoughts on Identity Get access David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. Pp. 238. Price £12.50 Harold Noohan Harold Noohan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 260–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219116 Published: 01 July 1981
Heraclitus' conceptions of flux, fire and material persistence
Even when they are most worthy of amazement, things of daily occurrence pass us by unnoticed.Seneca, Quaestiones Naturales 7.1.1
Sameness and Substance
The Sense and Reference of Predicates
Journal Article The Sense and Reference of Predicates: a Running Repair to Frege’s Doctrine and a Plea for the Copula Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 311–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218763 Published: 01 July 1984
XIV—Verbs and Adverbs, and Some Other Modes of Grammatical Combination
Categorical Requirements
Journal Article Categorical Requirements: Kant and Hume on the Idea of Duty Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins Birkbeck College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 January 1991, Pages 83–106, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19917413 Published: 09 December 2014
Sortal Concepts
Needs, Values, Truth
Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, David Wiggins; they are drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author passes to and fro between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language. The following themes are prominent: the elucidation of the ideas of truth, objec…
Deliberation and Practical Reason
In Book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle treats a restricted and technical notion of deliberation, which makes it unnecessary for him to consider anything but technical or so¬ called productive examples of practical reason. It is not surprising in the context of Book 3 that deliberation is never of ends but always of means. When he came to write Books 6 and 7of the Nicomachean Ethics and De Anima 3.7, Aristotle analysed a much less restricte…
Claims of Need
It has been felt for a long time that there must be some intimate connection between the needs of human beings and their abstract rights. H.L.A. Hart was giving voice to a strong and widespread intuition when he wrote: A concept of legal rights limited to those cases where the law... respects the choice of individuals would be too narrow. For there is a form of the moral criticism of law which ... is inspired by regard for the needs of individual…
Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life
Even now, in an age not much given to mysticism, there are people who ask ‘What is the meaning of life?’ Not a few of them make the simple ‘unphilosophical’ assumption that there is something to be known here. (One might say that they are ‘cognitivists’ with regard to this sort of question.) And most of these same people make the equally unguarded assumption that the whole issue of life’s meaning presupposes some positive answer to the question w…
The Right and the Good and W. D. Ross's Criticism of Consequentialism
David Ross made the first sustained attack on Moore's agathistic utilitarianism or ethical neutralism – the first attack, that is, on a consequentialism purified of ethical naturalism. Ross started out with an important idea about the difference (in the sphere of action) between the right and the good, and a good appreciation of the dialectical situation about consequentialism. His attack, based on the personal character of duty, is greatly hampe…
Needs, values, truth
II – David Wiggins
Evans was not wrong (i maintain) to say that the senses of genuine proper names invoke and require objects. Names in fiction or hypothesis mimic such names. Pace Evans, Sainsbury and free logicians, proper names are scopeless. (Evans’s ‘Julius’ is not a name.) Names create a presumption of existential generalization. In sentences such as ‘Vulcan does not really exist’, that presumption is bracketed. The sentence specifies by reference to story or…
Conditionals
Sameness and Substance Renewed
In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity aga…
Objectivity in Ethics; Two Difficulties, Two Responses
The paper, based on the H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture in Jurisprudence and Moral Philosophy, delivered in Oxford on 11th May 2004, sets out to answer two difficulties which the late J. L. Mackie proposed (in his book Ethics: Inventing Right & Wrong) against the idea of objectivity in ethics. These were (1) the metaphysical peculiarity (‘queerness’) of values and obligations and (2) the ‘well known variation in moral codes from one society to anoth…
Précis of Sameness and Substance Renewed
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