Second Philosophy

NOTE EDITORE

Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. In this book, Penelope Maddy describes and practises a particularly austere form of naturalism called 'Second Philosophy'. Without a definitive criterion for what counts as 'science' and what doesn't, Second Philosophy can't be specified directly - 'trust only the methods of science!' or some such thing - so Maddy proceeds instead by illustrating the behaviours of an idealized inquirer she calls the 'Second Philosopher'. This Second Philosopher begins from perceptual common sense and progresses from there to systematic observation, active experimentation, theory formation and testing, working all the while to assess, correct and improve her methods as she goes. Second Philosophy is then the result of the Second Philosopher's investigations. Maddy delineates the Second Philosopher's approach by tracing her reactions to various familiar skeptical and transcendental views (Descartes, Kant, Carnap, late Putnam, van Fraassen), comparing her methods to those of other self-described naturalists (especially Quine), and examining a prominent contemporary debate (between disquotationalists and correspondence theorists in the theory of truth) to extract a properly second-philosophical line of thought. She then undertakes to practise Second Philosophy in her reflections on the ground of logical truth, the methodology, ontology and epistemology of mathematics, and the general prospects for metaphysics naturalized.

SOMMARIO

1 - Descartes' first philosophy2 - Neo-Cartesian skepticism3 - Hume's naturalism4 - Kant's transcendentalism5 - Carnap's rational reconstruction6 - Quine's naturalism7 - Putnam's anti-naturalism8 - What's left to do?9 - An illustration: truth and reference10 - Reconfiguring the debate11 - Disquotation12 - Minimalism13 - Correlation14 - Naturalistic options15 - Kant on logic16 - Undoing the Copernican revolution17 - The logical structure of the world18 - The logical structure of cognition19 - The status of rudimentary logic20 - From rudimentary to classical logic21 - Caveats22 - Second philosophy of science23 - Mathematics in application24 - Second methodology of mathematics25 - Second philosophy of mathematics26 - Second metaphysics

AUTORE

Penelope Maddy is UCI Distinguished Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science and of Mathematics at the University of California at Irvine.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199566242
• Dimensioni: 234 x 28.6 x 155 mm Ø 806 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 462