Fatalism: thoughts about tomorrow's sea battle. (19th February 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Fatalism: thoughts about tomorrow's sea battle. (19th February 2019)
- Main Title:
- Fatalism: thoughts about tomorrow's sea battle
- Authors:
- Cockburn, David
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The hold of the fatalistic reasoning that Aristotle criticizes is dependent, first, on the idea, articulated by Frege, that the real candidates for truth and falsity are something other than particular contingent happenings such as affirmations or thinkings, and, second, on the idea that the demand for speculative reflection overrides any demand for practical deliberation. Standard challenges to the reasoning embody the same presuppositions and so simply perpetuate the core confusions. They do so most fundamentally in the assumption that we need a 'metaphysical' grounding for our idea of ourselves as agents who have influence on the course of events.
- Is Part Of:
- Philosophy. Volume 94:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Philosophy
- Issue:
- Volume 94:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 94, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 94
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0094-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 295
- Page End:
- 312
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-19
- Subjects:
- Philosophy -- Periodicals
100 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PHI ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0031819119000032 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0031-8191
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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