Thinking logically [electronic resource] : a historical critique of trends in contemporary philosophy of logic in the analytical tradition / Philip Larrey.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Italian Series: Contemporary European cultural studiesPublication details: Aurora, Colo. : Davies Group, Publishers, c2007.Description: x, 107 pUniform titles: Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 146/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • B808.5 .L3713 2007eb
Contents:
Introduction -- Presuppositions and other commitments : W.V.O. Quine -- Crucial importance of what is presupposed -- Quine and the utopia of extensionality -- Existence trumps ontological commitment -- Existence, theoretical constructs and common sense -- Conceptual schemes : Donald Davidson -- Historical survey -- Davidson's critique -- Truth makers -- Objective truth -- Interpretation and common sense : Richard Rorty -- After the linguistic turn -- Truth & intersubjective agreement -- Pre-philosophical convictions -- Realism and reticence : Hilary Putnam -- Analytic and post-analytic philosophy -- On the view from nowhere -- Internal realism with a capital R -- Concluding review -- Philosophy unbound -- The future of philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-107).

Introduction -- Presuppositions and other commitments : W.V.O. Quine -- Crucial importance of what is presupposed -- Quine and the utopia of extensionality -- Existence trumps ontological commitment -- Existence, theoretical constructs and common sense -- Conceptual schemes : Donald Davidson -- Historical survey -- Davidson's critique -- Truth makers -- Objective truth -- Interpretation and common sense : Richard Rorty -- After the linguistic turn -- Truth & intersubjective agreement -- Pre-philosophical convictions -- Realism and reticence : Hilary Putnam -- Analytic and post-analytic philosophy -- On the view from nowhere -- Internal realism with a capital R -- Concluding review -- Philosophy unbound -- The future of philosophy.

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