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Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge - Couverture rigide

 
9780197262917: Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0197262910 ISBN 13 : 9780197262917
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Eleven papers by distinguished British and American philosophers are brought together in this volume. Five of the contributors engage in effect in a running debate about knowledge. How does knowledge relate to evidence? How reliable need one be to have knowledge? Once sceptical doubt has been introduced is there any untainted evidence to show that it is misplaced? Does verificationism succeed in showing that scepticism is untenable? Or is there a natural propensity for belief which explains why we are not in fact sceptics? The other six tackle questions about logic and its relation to language. Can one give a 'realist' account of logical truth without supposing that logic has a subject-matter? How do theories of descriptions fare when tested by their handling of functions? How can indirect speech report someone's use of words like 'this'? Does our language count for or against adopting second-order logic? These papers, given in the British Academy Philosophical Lectures series, are all examples of recent philosophy at its best.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Baldwin is a Reader in French at the University of Kent.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197262910
ISBN 13 
9780197262917
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
306
Éditeur
Baldwin Thomas, Smiley Timothy
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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