Peter Unger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 988172 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Unger |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Unger |
| ASSINATURA | UNGER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 153 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
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Reply to James Van Cleve
Reply to Stephen Mumford
Précis of All the Power in the World
This book is a double-edged response to a Metaphysical View—I call it “Scientiphicalism”—that’s been dominant among mainstream philosophers for decades. The View is neutral on whether our actual world’s physical reality is fundamentally particulate or fieldy. For brevity, I’ll here focus on its particulate form. Perhaps the View is neutral between our world’s concrete reality comprising only material individuals and our concrete reality comprisin…
Philosophical Papers
While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger’s articles have been less widely accessible. These two volumes of Unger’s Philosophical Papers include articles spanning more than 35 years of Unger’s long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, the first volume collects work in epistemology and ethics, among other topics, while the second volume focuses on metaphysics. Unger’s work has advanced the full spectrum…
Philosophical Papers
While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger’s articles have been less widely accessible. These two volumes of Unger’s Philosophical Papers include articles spanning more than 35 years of Unger’s long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, this first volume collects work in epistemology and ethics, among other topics, while the second volume focuses on metaphysics. Unger’s work has advanced the full spectru…
All the Power in the World
"This bold and original work of philosophy presents a new picture of concrete reality. Peter Unger breaks with what he terms the conservatism of present-day philosophy, and returns to central themes from Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Russell. Wiping the slate clean, Unger works, from the ground up, to formulate a new metaphysic capable of accommodating our distinctly human perspective. He proposes a world with inherently powerful particula…
The Mental Problems of the Many
Many years ago, I blush to recall, I published some arguments against the existence of all sorts of commonly supposed entities-against rocks and desks, plants and planets, stars and salt shakers, human brains and bodies, and, perish the thought, against us human thinking experiencers, including even the one who ‘s me. By contrast, now I ‘m trying to develop, in a book I ‘ve been long writing, a humanly realistic philosophy, wherein my existence, …
Free Will and Scientiphicalism
It's been agreed for decades that not only does Determinism pose a big problem for our choosing from available alternatives, but its denial seems to pose a bit of a problem, too. It's argued here that only Determinism, and not its denial, means no real choice for us. But, what explains the appeal of the thought that, where things aren't fully determined, to that extent they're just a matter of chance? It's the dominance of metaphysical suppositio…
Living High and Letting Die
By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it is not very good, neither is the conduct wrong…
Take and Give
Living High and Letting Die
Living High and Letting Die is notable for two quite different achievements. The first is a substantive ethical argument for a practical conclusion about our obligation not to let people die. Starting with the fact that relatively modest amounts of money, donated to overseas aid agencies like UNICEF and Oxfam, can save the lives of people in developing countries who would otherwise die from preventable diseases, Unger contends that not giving (at…
Sacrificing for the Good of Strangers-Repeatedly
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Precis of Living High and Letting Die
Living High and Letting Die
That our unexamined moral intuitions often lead us to commend conduct that is seriously wrong and to condemn conduct that is not wrong indicates the extent to which these intuitions clash with our Basic Moral Values. The view known as Liberationism, which holds that moral intuitions are often unreflective of basic values, contrasts with the more common view known as Preservationism, which maintains that our moral intuitions accord with our basic …
Contextual Analysis in Ethics
When assessed by an appropriate ethical standard, most of us usually behave quite acceptably. Or, so we generally judge. And, when assessed by an appropriate epistemological standard, most of us usually do quite well, too: First, we know many things about the world and, second, we're usually justified in holding those of our confident beliefs that aren't quite instances of knowledge. Or, again, so we generally judge. As we generally judge, then, …
Identity, Consciousness, and Value
The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new lig…
Identity, Consciousness and Value
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Identity, Consciousness and Value. By Peter Unger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 344. Price £28.00.) Geoffrey Madell Geoffrey Madell University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 167, April 1992, Pages 247–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220223 Published: 01 April 1992
Reply to Reviewers
Strangely, Sydney Shoemaker's most provocative remark concerns merely terminological matters: Most conspicuously, he says it's curious that, although I oppose psychological approach, my own account is straightforwardly a version of the psychological account of personal identity. What are we to make of the strange swipe at my book's coherence and newsworthiness? Coherence: In chapter 3 I specify the psychological approach. As specified, the approa…
Precis of Identity, Consciousness and Value
While it concerns other large issues as well, a single questionfocuses the inquiry of this book': What is involved when an actual person, like me, survives until some future time, like a century from now? To this question, some seek a completely general answer. Even if Berkeley should be right and there is no physical reality, their (desired) answer is to inform us about our survival. Although pretty ambitious in the matter, I'm content to settle…
Physically Based Subjects And Their Experiences
The best approach to our survival, I have been arguing, is one that is based on, or inspired by, the physical approach. For some of those who are philosophically most sensitive, however, all of this may have proceeded too fast. They may agree that, with mere ships, for instance, our conventions really are needed to discriminate them, one from the other and, indeed, each from the rest of the world. And this is how it is, too, they may agree, with …
Title Pages
The Physical Approach To Our Survival
The physical approach to our survival is the best basis for an adequate treatment of our identity over time: Any better approach will more likely result from a modification of this approach than from a rejection of it. For this reason, it is important that we understand the import of the physical approach. In keeping with the spirit of this book, the physical approach is not offered as any sort of analytic or conceptual truth. For one thing, I se…
Semantics and Philosophy
The Problem of the Many
Living High and Letting Die
Living High and Letting Die is notable for two quite different achievements. The first is a substantive ethical argument for a practical conclusion about our obligation not to let people die. Starting with the fact that relatively modest amounts of money, donated to overseas aid agencies like UNICEF and Oxfam, can save the lives of people in developing countries who would otherwise die from preventable diseases, Unger contends that not giving (at…
There are no ordinary things
Identity, Consciousness and Value
Peter Unger here presents a fascinating new multidimensional account of the determinants of personal identity. He explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to survival of the person, shedding new light on the work of such figures as Sidney Shoemaker and Derek Parfit. In the course of his discussion Unger produces a novel and controversial account of the relation of identity and p…
A Defense of Skepticism
Contextual Analysis in Ethics
When assessed by an appropriate ethical standard, most of us usually behave quite acceptably. Or, so we generally judge. And, when assessed by an appropriate epistemological standard, most of us usually do quite well, too: First, we know many things about the world and, second, we're usually justified in holding those of our confident beliefs that aren't quite instances of knowledge. Or, again, so we generally judge. As we generally judge, then, …
Reply to Reviewers
Strangely, Sydney Shoemaker's most provocative remark concerns merely terminological matters: Most conspicuously, he says it's curious that, although I oppose psychological approach, my own account is straightforwardly a version of the psychological account of personal identity. What are we to make of the strange swipe at my book's coherence and newsworthiness? Coherence: In chapter 3 I specify the psychological approach. As specified, the approa…
Reply to Stephen Mumford
Free Will and Scientiphicalism
It's been agreed for decades that not only does Determinism pose a big problem for our choosing from available alternatives, but its denial seems to pose a bit of a problem, too. It's argued here that only Determinism, and not its denial, means no real choice for us. But, what explains the appeal of the thought that, where things aren't fully determined, to that extent they're just a matter of chance? It's the dominance of metaphysical suppositio…
Sacrificing for the Good of Strangers-Repeatedly
Precis of Living High and Letting Die
Precis of Identity, Consciousness and Value
While it concerns other large issues as well, a single questionfocuses the inquiry of this book': What is involved when an actual person, like me, survives until some future time, like a century from now? To this question, some seek a completely general answer. Even if Berkeley should be right and there is no physical reality, their (desired) answer is to inform us about our survival. Although pretty ambitious in the matter, I'm content to settle…
Philosophical Relativity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophical Relativity. By Peter Unger. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. x + 132. Price £14.00) Peter Carruthers Peter Carruthers The Queen’s University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 139, April 1985, Pages 207–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219350 Published: 01 April 1985
Ignorance
In this controversial volume (originally published in 1975) Peter Unger suggests that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have a reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot have any realistic emotional ties: it can never be conclusively said that someone is happy or sad about anything. Finally he argues that no one can ever say, let alone believe, that anything is the case. In order to get beyond this …
Untersuchung über die spezifische Oberfläche von Glasgrießen
Untersuchung über die spezifische Oberfläche von Glasgrießen
A Defense of Skepticism
Ignorance
Ignorance
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism. By Peter Unger. (Oxford Clarendon Press. 1975. Pp. xi + 323. Price £6.50) Peter Lamarque Peter Lamarque Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 105, October 1976, Pages 369–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218871 Published: 01 October 1976
Ignorance
Abstract Argues for the thesis of universal ignorance, i.e., for the claim that nobody can ever know anything. To this effect, puts forward versions of the classical Cartesian argument for skepticism as well as novel arguments involving normative premises and the concept of certainty. Universal ignorance gives rise to further skeptical results: in order to be justified or reasonable in believing something, the subject must know something to be so…
Ignorance
In this controversial volume (originally published in 1975) Peter Unger suggests that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have a reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot have any realistic emotional ties: it can never be conclusively said that someone is happy or sad about anything. Finally he argues that no one can ever say, let alone believe, that anything is the case. In order to get beyond this …
There are no ordinary things
The Problem of the Many
Philosophical Relativity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophical Relativity. By Peter Unger. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. x + 132. Price £14.00) Peter Carruthers Peter Carruthers The Queen’s University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 139, April 1985, Pages 207–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219350 Published: 01 April 1985
Philosophical Relativity
Physically Based Subjects And Their Experiences
The best approach to our survival, I have been arguing, is one that is based on, or inspired by, the physical approach. For some of those who are philosophically most sensitive, however, all of this may have proceeded too fast. They may agree that, with mere ships, for instance, our conventions really are needed to discriminate them, one from the other and, indeed, each from the rest of the world. And this is how it is, too, they may agree, with …
Title Pages
The Physical Approach To Our Survival
The physical approach to our survival is the best basis for an adequate treatment of our identity over time: Any better approach will more likely result from a modification of this approach than from a rejection of it. For this reason, it is important that we understand the import of the physical approach. In keeping with the spirit of this book, the physical approach is not offered as any sort of analytic or conceptual truth. For one thing, I se…
What Matters In Our Survival
The current literature abounds with lively discussions of what matters in our survival. On one extreme, there are those who hold the absolutely deflationary view of what matters in our survival: Strict survival itself never really, or fundamentally, matters at all. Rather, what matters always might be, for example, the holding of certain continuities that, in favored cases, happen to underpin the truth of strict survival claims. Diametrically opp…
Dedication
Conscious Experiences And Subjects Of Consciousness
Each of us is, in fact, a complex physical being, occupying a region of space for a period of time. For one of us to survive into the future, there must be, in fact, significant physical continuity, from now until that future time, of whatever physically realizes, from now until then, that person’s basic dispositional psychology. We are not purely subjective, transcendental beings that might have much better prospects for indefinitely great futur…
Fission And The Focus Of One’S Life
Especially through consideration of their middle ranges, many fine-grained spectra of cases can show us that, even in the prudential use of the term, what matters in survival sometimes comes apart from our survival itself. In the literature, there is a second main way of showing, or attempting to show, that the two sometimes come apart: These are the various sorts of branching cases, especially certain cases of fission. In the present chapter, we…
Investigating Our Beliefs About Ourselves
By the end of this book, if not before, you may come to have a fuller appreciation of some of your central beliefs about yourself, and some of your related attitudes. In particular, you may come to realize more fully that, even as you yourself most deeply believe, after several more decades at most, you will cease to exist, completely and forever. In the light of this awareness, and according to your deepest values, perhaps you will make the most…
The Psychological Approach To Our Survival
Nowadays, many leading writers give their endorsement, in one form or another, to our objective view of ourselves. In so doing, they reject the purely subjective view of the self, as well as hybrid views like the Cartesian view and the Butlerian view. But our objective view may itself take various forms. Indeed, there may be several competing objective approaches, each of which is initially plausible. Any of these plausible approaches will treat …
The Appreciation Of Our Actual Values
Although your values are different from mine, there is a basic core of values that we share. People from radically different cultures and eras may share little of this valuational core; people from other galaxies may share scarcely any of it. But the lack of universality need not diminish the importance of our coming to understand more clearly what our own main values actually are. In this final chapter, we will take a few steps toward achieving …
A Physically Based Approach To Our Survival
It is not my aim to provide a highly detailed account of our identity over time, not even one that is adequate only relative to the general truth of our accepted world view. Rather, I aim only to sketch the outlines of a realistic account of our survival. As I see it, the best attempt toward this more modest goal may begin with the physical approach to our survival. Then it may look for ways to refine this rather pure and simple approach. Because…
Identity, Consciousness and Value
Peter Unger here presents a fascinating new multidimensional account of the determinants of personal identity. He explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to survival of the person, shedding new light on the work of such figures as Sidney Shoemaker and Derek Parfit. In the course of his discussion Unger produces a novel and controversial account of the relation of identity and p…
Identity, Consciousness and Value
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Identity, Consciousness and Value. By Peter Unger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 344. Price £28.00.) Geoffrey Madell Geoffrey Madell University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 167, April 1992, Pages 247–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220223 Published: 01 April 1992
Reply to Reviewers
Strangely, Sydney Shoemaker's most provocative remark concerns merely terminological matters: Most conspicuously, he says it's curious that, although I oppose psychological approach, my own account is straightforwardly a version of the psychological account of personal identity. What are we to make of the strange swipe at my book's coherence and newsworthiness? Coherence: In chapter 3 I specify the psychological approach. As specified, the approa…
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