Thinking logically a historical critique of trends in contemporary philosophy of logic in the analytical tradition /

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Main Author: Larrey, Philip, 1963-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Aurora, Colo. : Davies Group, Publishers, c2007.
Series:Contemporary European cultural studies.
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Table of 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.