All We Need Is a Paradigm Essays on Science, Economics, and Logic from the Harvard Review of Philosophy

by Upham, S. Phineas; Cavell, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780812696356
• ISBN10: 0812696352
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

All We Need Is a Paradigm collects for the first time in one place some of the most important essays from the Harvard Review of Philosophy. The chapters provide insights into the philosophical underpinnings of the way our world works. Whether they explore rationality, quantum physics, mathematics, or music, the authors strive to deepen our ability to understand the what and how of our surroundings.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Human Nature and the Character of Economic Science: The Historical Background of the Misesian Perspective	p. 1
The Hardest logic Puzzle Ever	p. 13
Saying and Showing and the Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought	p. 19
Text of Texts	p. 37
Frege's Theorem: An Introduction	p. 41
What is the Problem of Measurement?	p. 63
Making Sense of Others: Donald Davidson on Interpretation	p. 81
Analyticity and Holism in Quine's Thought	p. 99
On Wanting to Say, 'All We Need Is a Paradigm'	p. 117
Causation and Ceteris Paribus Laws	p. 135
The Mysteries of Self-Locating Belief and Anthropic Reasoning	p. 159
Structuralism and the Independence of Mathematics	p. 177
The Deep and Suggestive Principles of Leibnizian Philosophy	p. 191
The Modern Neo-Positivist: A Tribute to W.V. Quine	p. 207
Notes	p. 209
About the Editor	p. 223
Index	p. 225
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