Oxford, England and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press (2007)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. In Second Philosophy, Penelope Maddy describes and practices a particularly austere form of naturalism called "Second Philosophy". Without a definitive criterion for what counts as "science" and what doesn't, Second Philosophy can't be specified directly ("trust only the methods of science" for example), so Maddy proceeds instead by illustrating the behaviors of an idealized inquirer she calls the "Second Philosopher". mhis Second Philosopher begins from perceptual common sense experimentation, theory formation and testing, working all the while to asses, correct and improve her methods as she goes. Second Philosophy is then the result of the Second Philosopher's investigations. Maddy delineates the Second Philosopher's approach by tracing her reactions to various familiar skeptical and transcendental views (Descartes, Kant, Carnap, late Putnam, van Fraassen), comparing her methods to those of other self-described naturalists (especially Quine), and examining a prominent contemporary debate (between disquotationalists and correspondence theorists in the theory of truth) to extract a properly second-philosophical line of thought. She then undertakes to practice Second Philosophy in her reflections on the ground of logical truth, the methodology, ontology and epistemology of mathematics, and the general prospects for metaphysics naturalized
|
Keywords | Naturalism Mathematics Philosophy |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Reprint years | 2009 |
Buy this book | $50.00 new Amazon page |
Call number | B828.2.M33 2007 |
ISBN(s) | 0199273669 0199566240 9780199273669 9780199566242 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
Scientific Realism Made Effective.Porter Williams - 2019 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 70 (1):209-237.
Moderately Naturalistic Metaphysics.Matteo Morganti & Tuomas E. Tahko - 2017 - Synthese 194 (7):2557-2580.
Working From Within: The Nature and Development of Quine's Naturalism.Sander Verhaegh - 2018 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Epistemic Infrastructure for a Scientific Metaphysics.Amanda Bryant - 2021 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 98 (1):27-49.
View all 117 citations / Add more citations
Similar books and articles
Some Naturalistic Reflections on Set Theoretic Method.Penelope J. Maddy - 2001 - Topoi 20 (1):17-27.
Realism in Mathematics.Penelope Maddy - 1990 - Oxford, England and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Prress.
Review of P. Maddy, Naturalism in Mathematics. [REVIEW]Gideon Rosen - 1999 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (3):467-474.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2009-01-28
Total views
505 ( #17,662 of 2,506,371 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
33 ( #27,383 of 2,506,371 )
2009-01-28
Total views
505 ( #17,662 of 2,506,371 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
33 ( #27,383 of 2,506,371 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads