Peter Unger

Peter K. Unger ( born 1942 ) is an American philosopher and a professor at New York University. His research interests are metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and the philosophy of mind.

Study

Peter Unger studied with David Lewis at Swarthmore College, where he in 1962 with a BA achieved in philosophy. He then studied under AJ Ayer Philosophy at Oxford University and eventually earned his doctorate in 1966.

Positions

Unger is a passionate advocate of philosophical skepticism and as such represents the view that many philosophical questions can not be answered with absolute certainty. In applied ethics, he caught both in professional circles and in the public attention with the assertion that every man with a certain standard of living have a moral duty to make large donations to charities like Oxfam and UNICEF, even if you beg for loans must accept or even steal. In addition, Unger has shown using the paradox of the heap that he - like all other composite objects - does not exist.

Publications

  • Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism (Oxford University Press, 1975 and 2002), ISBN 0198244177
  • Philosophical Relativity ( Blackwell and Minnesota, 1984; Oxford, 2002), ISBN 019515553X
  • Identity, Consciousness and Value ( Oxford, 1990), ISBN 0-19-507917-5
  • Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Oxford, 1996), ISBN 0-19-510859-0
  • All the Power in the World (Oxford, 2006), ISBN 0-19-515561-0
  • Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 (Oxford, 2006), ISBN 0-19-515552-1
  • Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (Oxford, 2006), ISBN 0-19-530158-7

Papers

  • "On experience and the development of the understanding", American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 3 (1966 ), pp. 48-56.
  • " Experience and factual knowledge", Journal of Philosophy Vol 64 (1967 ), pp. 152-173.
  • "An analysis of factual knowledge", Journal of Philosophy Vol 65 (1968 ), pp. 157-170.
  • "Our knowledge of the material world", in Studies in the theory of knowledge, N. Rescher (ed.), American philosophical quarterly / Monograph Series, 1970, pp. 40-61
  • "A defense of skepticism ," Philosophical Review Vol 80 (1971 ), pp. 198-219.
  • " Propositional verbs and knowledge", Journal of Philosophy Vol 69 (1972 ), pp. 301-312.
  • "The wages of skepticism ," American Philosophical Quarterly Vol 10 (1973 ), pp. 177-187.
  • "An argument for skepticism ," Philosophic Exchange: Annual Proceedings Vol 1 (1974 ), pp. 131-155.
  • "Two types of skepticism ," Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition Vol 25 (1974 ), pp. 77-95.
  • " Impotence and causal determinism ", Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition Vol 31 (1977 ), pp. 289-305.
  • "The uniqueness in causation", American Philosophical Quarterly Vol 14 (1977 ), pp. 177-188.
  • " I do not Exist ," in Perception and Identity, GF MacDonald (ed.), London: Macmillan, 1979, pp. 235-251.
  • "There are no ordinary things ," Synthesis: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science " Vol 41 (1979 ), pp. 117-154.
  • "Why there are no people", Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol 4 (1979 ), pp. 177-222.
  • " The Problem of the Many ," Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol 5 ( 1980), pp. 411-467.
  • " Skepticism and Nihilism ," Nous Vol 14 ( 1980), pp. 517-545.
  • "Toward a psychology of common sense", American Philosophical Quarterly Vol 19 (1982 ), pp. 117-130.
  • "The causal theory of reference", Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition Vol 43 (1983 ), pp. 1-45.
  • " Minimizing arbitrariness: Toward a metaphysics of infinitely many isolated concrete worlds", Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol 9 (1984 ), pp. 29-52.
  • " The cone model of knowledge", Philosophical Topics Bd.14, No. 1 ( 1986), p.125 - 178th
  • " Consciousness and self -identity ," Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol 10 (1986 ), pp. 63-100.
  • " Conscious being in a gradual world", Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol 12 (1988 ), pp. 287-333.
  • " Causing and Preventing serious harm", Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition Vol 65 ( 1992), pp. 227-255.
  • " Précis of identity, consciousness and value ," Philosophical and Phenomenological Research Vol 52 ( 1992), pp. 133-137.
  • " Reply to reviewers of identity, consciousness and value ," Philosophical and Phenomenological Research Vol 52 ( 1992), pp. 159-176.
  • "Contextual analysis in ethics ," Philosophical and Phenomenological Research Vol 55 (1995 ), pp. 1-26.
  • "The mystery of the physical and the matter of qualities: A paper for Professor Shaffer ," Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol 23 (1999 ), pp. 75-99.
  • " Précis of living high and letting the " Philosophical and Phenomenological Research Vol 59 (1999 ), pp. 173-175.
  • " Replies ", ' Philosophical and Phenomenological Research Vol 59 (1999 ), pp. 203-216.
  • "The survival of the sentient (Volume 14: Action and Freedom ) ," Nous Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives " Vol 14 (2000 ), pp. 325-348
  • " Science and The Possibility of philosophy ," Harvard Review of Philosophy Vol 9 (2001 ), pp. 4-56.
  • "Free Will and Scientiphicalism ," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol 65 (2002 ), pp. 1-25
  • " The mental problems of the many", Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Vol 1 (2004 ), pp. 195-222.
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