Second philosophy : a naturalistic method / Penelope Maddy.

Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. Here, Penelope Maddy proposes a particularly austere form of naturalism called 'Second Philosophy'.

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Main Author: Maddy, Penelope
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is second philosophy?
  • Descartes's first philosophy
  • Neo-Cartesian skepticism
  • Hume's naturalism
  • Kant's transcendentalism
  • Carnap's rational reconstruction
  • Quine's naturalism
  • Putnam's anti-naturalism
  • The second philosopher at work
  • What's left to do?
  • An illustration : truth and reference
  • Reconfiguring the debate
  • Disquotation
  • Minimalism
  • Correlation
  • A second philosophy of logic
  • Naturalistic options
  • Kant on logic
  • Undoing the Copernican revolution
  • The logical structure of the world
  • The logical structure of cognition
  • The status of rudimentary logic
  • From rudimentary to classical logic
  • Caveats
  • Second philosophy and mathematics
  • Second philosophy of science
  • Mathematics in application
  • Second methodology of mathematics
  • Second philosophy of mathematics
  • Second metaphysics.