1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784846203321

Autore

Maddy Penelope

Titolo

Second philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : a naturalistic method / / Penelope Maddy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-956624-0

1-281-16455-0

9786611164553

0-19-153431-5

1-4356-0714-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 p.)

Disciplina

146

Soggetti

Naturalism

Mathematics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-437) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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'.