Transcendence without reality

Philosophy

Volumn 80, Issue 313, 2005, Pages 361-384

  Wright, John R ^a  

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EID: 62449327092     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819105000343     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 11
2. Nagel, The View from Nowhere, 74
3. Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 7
4. Rorty, Objectivity, 8
5. Nagel, 'Subjective and Objective' in Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 209
6. Nagel, 'Subjective and objective,' 212
7. See John McDowell's similar remarks on Bernard Williams in 'Aesthetic Value, Objectivity, and the Fabric of the World' in Mind, Value, and Reality (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998), 123ff
8. Peter Winch, 'Im Anfang war die Tat' in Trying to Make Sense (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 44
9. See also Harvey Cormier's excellent treatment of similar questions in a critical discussion of Hilary Putnam's realism in The Truth is What Works: William James, Pragmatism, and the Seed of Death (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), 135-150
10. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 3rd ed., trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (New York: Macmillan, 1953), II, xii, 230
11. Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty trans. Denis Paul and G. E. M Anscombe (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 505. Note there is no reason to capitalize 'nature' as is done in the translation, since German capitalizes all nouns
12. See also Anscombe, G. E. M., 'The Question of Linguistic Idealism' in The Collected Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, Volume 1: From Parmenides to Wittgenstein (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), 124
13. Michael Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language (London: Duckworth, 1973), 467
14. cited in Winch, 'Im Anfang'
15. Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (New York: Routledge, 1970), 17-18
16. Murdoch, Sovereignty, 23
17. The language of a 'live possibility' is that of William James in 'The Will to Believe' in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1923)
18. For the importance of this aspect of the phenomenology of value, see John McDowell 'Values and Secondary Qualities,' Mind, Value, and Reality, 144
19. See John Wright 'Moral Discourse, Pluralism, and Moral Cognitivism,' Metaphilosophy (forthcoming)
20. Iris Murdoch, 'The Darkness of Practical Reason' in Existentialists and Mystics (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), 201
21. See also, Cora Diamond's '"We are Perpetually Moralists": Iris Murdoch, Fact and Value' in Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness, ed. Maria Antonaccio and William Schweiker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
22. Iris Murdoch, 'The Sublime and the Good' in Existentialists and Mystics, 215
23. Iris Murdoch, 'Vision and Choice in Morality,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supp. vol. 30 (1956): 55
24. Murdoch, 'Vision and Choice,' 56