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The Logical Must. Wittgenstein on Logic.
Penelope Maddy
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Description for The Logical Must. Wittgenstein on Logic.
The Logical Must is an examination of Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, from an austere naturalistic perspective called "Second Philosophy." Num Pages: 152 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290.
The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "Second Philosophy." The Second Philosopher is a humble but tireless inquirer who begins her investigation of the world with ordinary perceptual beliefs, moves from there to empirical generalizations, then to deliberate experimentation, and eventually to theory formation and confirmation. She takes this same approach to logical truth, locating its ground in simple worldly structures and our knowledge of it in our basic cognitive machinery, tuned by evolutionary pressures to detect those structures where they occur. ... Read more
The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "Second Philosophy." The Second Philosopher is a humble but tireless inquirer who begins her investigation of the world with ordinary perceptual beliefs, moves from there to empirical generalizations, then to deliberate experimentation, and eventually to theory formation and confirmation. She takes this same approach to logical truth, locating its ground in simple worldly structures and our knowledge of it in our basic cognitive machinery, tuned by evolutionary pressures to detect those structures where they occur. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199391752
SKU
V9780199391752
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99-16
About Penelope Maddy
Penelope Maddy is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for The Logical Must. Wittgenstein on Logic.
Maddy is well placed to explore the question of the extent to which Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, both early and late, is compatible with such a systematic naturalism ... The book covers a remarkable amount of material, yet is also extremely concise ... In its succinct ambitiousness, the book follows in the footsteps of two other exemplary short books on ... Read more