Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
I
II
III
Notes
References
Part I MIND
Chapter One The Functionalist's Inner State
Behaviourism and Functionalism
A Thought Experiment
Madmen and Super-Spartans
How to Proceed?
Reference, Objectivity, Science
Natural Responses
Notes
References
Chapter Two 'Not a Something'
Introduction
Context and Constitution
'I Was Thinking'
Token-Identity Theory
Investigation
Sensations
Notes
References
Chapter Three Sincerity in Thought
Introduction
Insincerity in Thought and Behaviour
The Doubtfulness of a Thought
Failure to Think Properly
Sincerity: Intellectual or Ethical Virtue?
Notes
References
Chapter Four is Pleasure a Good?
'Good' and 'the Good'
Enjoying and Wanting
'How Is That Pleasant?'
Interpretative Motives
Pleasure as a Good
Notes
References
Part II Action
Chapter Five The Voluntary and the Involuntary: Themes from Anscombe
Preamble
'Why?' and the Merely Voluntary
Something Physiological?
Possible Prevention
Conformity with the Will
'It Didn't Occur to Me'
Some Counterfactuals
Voluntary Ignorance
Notes
References
Chapter Six Rational Choice Theory and Backward-Looking Motives
Notes
References
Chapter Seven Meaning, Understanding and Action
Understanding Stopping and Forcing Modals
Abilities and Inclinations
Illusion and Confusion
Travails of Internalism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Eight Why 'Why?'? Action, Reasons and Language
Not a Heuristic Device
Voluntariness and Responsibility
'Mental State': An Unhelpful Notion
Some Implications
Notes
References
Part III Ethics.

Chapter Nine Ethics and Philosophy: Aristotle and Wittgenstein Compared
Preamble
Wisdom, Theoretical and Practical
Philosophy and Natural Science
Notes
References
Chapter Ten 'How Should One Live?': Williams on Practical Deliberation and Reasons for Acting
Practical Deliberation as Radically First-Personal
Desires as Reasons
Internal and External Reasons
Human Nature and the Ethical
Notes
References
Chapter Eleven 'An Inculcated Caring': Ryle on Moral Knowledge
A Third Kind of Knowledge
Telling the Difference
An Inculcated Caring
Notes
References
Chapter Twelve Are There any Intrinsically Unjust Acts?
Preamble
Habitual Refusal and Exclusion from Deliberation
Moral Dilemmas
(Ir)relevance of Motive
The Nature of Practical Wisdom
Bedrock
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part IV Language
Chapter Thirteen The Identity of a Word
Words in Context
A Theory of Language?
Some Recent Attempts
Philosophy of Language and Beyond
Notes
References
Chapter Fourteen Ryle on Hypotheticals
Hypotheticals and Inference Precepts
What Is an Argument?
Truth and Truth-Functionality
Truth-Conditions versus Use
Notes
References
Chapter Fifteen Metaphysics and Modals
Metaphysics - Hume and Wittgenstein
Grammar and Modals
Possible Worlds
The Sorites Paradox
Logic
Notes
References
Chapter Sixteen Conceptual Corruption
Concept Loss
Anscombe on 'Moral Obligation'
The Autonomy of Grammar
Authenticity and Dishonesty
Ethics and Philosophy
Special Sense or No Sense?
Notes
References
Sources
Index.