Conventionalism

Name: Conventionalism
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521826198
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From Poincare to Quine

Autor: Yemima Ben-Menahem

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and muc...

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Autor

Yemima Ben-Menahem

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2006

Pagini

344

EAN

9780521826198

ISBN

0521826195

Enbook ID

02045458

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

598

Dimensiuni

159 x 232 x 27

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The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This 2006 book provides a comprehensive study of Conventionalism. Drawing a distinction between two conventionalist theses, the under-determination of science by empirical fact, and the linguistic account of necessity, Yemima Ben-Menahem traces the evolution of both ideas to their origins in Poincaré's geometric conventionalism. She argues that the radical extrapolations of Poincaré's ideas by later thinkers, including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Carnap, eventually led to the decline of conventionalism. This book provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century philosophy. Many of the major themes of contemporary philosophy emerge in this book as arising from engagement with the challenge of conventionalism.

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