Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny

by John Cottingham, Peter Hacker

Overview

Sir Anthony Kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our time. In the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibility. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, who have played down philosophy's debt to its past, Kenny's work has always been rooted in the great tradition of Western philosophical inquiry. Mind, Method and Morality celebrates Kenny's work by focusing on the four great philosophers to whom Kenny has given special attention, namely Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein. It contains sixteen essays (four on each philosopher) written by leading specialists in the relevant area. Strongly linked together by their focus on philosophy of mind, action and responsibility, the papers make a significant contribution to those areas of philosophy that Kenny has made particularly his own, and constitute a timely celebration of his work. While keeping to the highest standards of scholarship and philosophical rigor, the volume aims to be engaging and comprehensible to a wide audience, thus mirroring the clarity and accessibility that are the hallmarks of Kenny's own philosophical writings. A preface by the Editors describes Anthony Kenny's philosophical career, and the volume also includes a complete bibliography of his writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199556120
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	02/28/2010
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford University. He has served as Chairman of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, as President of the Mind Association, and as President of the Aristotelian Society.

Peter Hacker is Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a Tutorial Fellow in philosophy from 1966 to 2006. He was an undergraduate at the Queen's College, Oxford, a graduate student at St Antony's, and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol. He has held visiting chairs in north America, and both British Academy and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Part I: Aristotle
1. The Good, the Noble and the Theoretical in the Eudemian Ethics, Sarah Broadie
2. The Opinion of Aristotle concerning Destiny and What Is Up To Us, Jonathan Barnes
3. Weakness and Impetuosity, David Charles
4. An Approach to Aristotelian Actuality, Christopher Shields
Part II: Aquinas
5. The Role of Consent in Aquinas' Theory of Action, Terence Irwin
6. Kenny and Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Mind, John Haldane
7. 'Whatever is Changing is being Changed by Something Else': A Reappraisal of Premise One of the First Way, David S. Oderberg
8. The Action of God, Brian Davies
Part III: Descartes
9. The Physics and Metaphysics of the Mind: Descartes and Regius, Desmond Clarke
10. Cartesian Autonomy, John Cottingham
11. Descartes's Theory of Perceptual Cognition and the Question of Moral Sensibility, Stephen Gaukroger
12. Descartes and the Immortality of the Soul, Marleen Rozemond
Part IV: Wittgenstein
13. The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology, Peter Hacker
14. Concepts: Between the Subjective and the Objective, Hans-Johann Glock
15. Some Remarks on Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Mind, Joachim Schulte
16. A Tale of Two Problems, Severin Schroeder
Bibliography of the Works of Anthony Kenny
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book to be treasured by all philosophers who have learned significant philosophical concepts from the lectures and writings of Anthony Kenny...A highly recommended anthology."—American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

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