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Philosophical Explanations

Overview

Philosophical Explanations is a 1981 treatise on metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics by philosopher Robert Nozick.

The book received positive reviews. Commentators have compared Philosophical Explanations to the philosopher Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and praised it for Nozick's discussions of the fundamental questions of philosophy and of topics such as epistemology and ethics, and welcomed it as a convincing response to charges that American academic philosophy is overly concerned with technical issues. Nozick's discussions of knowledge and skepticism have received much critical attention.

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Philosophers who discussed Philosophical Explanations

• Robert Nozick

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• Mind–body problem
• The Philosophical Quarterly
• Ethics (journal)
• Harvard University Press
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• Analytic philosophy
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• Metaphysics
• Philosophical skepticism
• Richard Rorty
• Alvin Goldman
• The New Republic
• Robert Nozick
• Fred Dretske
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• Continental philosophy
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• The Journal of Philosophy
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• Bernard Williams
• Alasdair MacIntyre

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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