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Second philosophy : a naturalistic method / Penelope Maddy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maddy, Penelope, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naturalism.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 448 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Naturalistic method
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists but it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. Here, Penelope Maddy proposes a particularly austere form of naturalism called 'Second Philosophy'.
- Contents:
- What is second philosophy?
- Descartes's first philosophy
- Neo-Cartesian skepticism
- Hume's naturalism
- Kant's transcendentalism
- Carnap's rational reconstruction
- Quine's naturalism
- Putnam's anti-naturalism
- The second philosopher at work
- What's left to do?
- An illustration : truth and reference
- Reconfiguring the debate
- Disquotation
- Minimalism
- Correlation
- A second philosophy of logic
- Naturalistic options
- Kant on logic
- Undoing the Copernican revolution
- The logical structure of the world
- The logical structure of cognition
- The status of rudimentary logic
- From rudimentary to classical logic
- Caveats
- Second philosophy and mathematics
- Second philosophy of science
- Mathematics in application
- Second methodology of mathematics
- Second philosophy of mathematics
- Second metaphysics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-437) and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-956624-0
- 1-281-16455-0
- 9786611164553
- 0-19-153431-5
- 1-4356-0714-7
- OCLC:
- 252693483
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