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9780197508855

A Plea for Natural Philosophy And Other Essays

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    9780197508855

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    0197508855

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-01-25
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Penelope Maddy earned a BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkelely, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of California at Irvine. Maddy is the
author of Realism in Mathematics, Naturalism in Mathematics (winner of the 2002 Lakatos Award), Second Philosophy, Defending the Axioms, The Logical Must, and What Do Philosophers Do? Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy, all published with Oxford University Press. Maddy is a former President
of the Association for Symbolic Logic and of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), and a current Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments
Introduction

Method
1. A plea for natural philosophy
2. On the question of realism
Skepticism
3. Hume and Reid
4. Moore's hands
5. Wittgenstein on hinges
Logic and language
6. A note on of truth and reference
7. The philosophy of logic
8. A second philosophy of logic
Mathematics
9. Psychology and the a priori
10. Do numbers exist?
11. Enhanced if-thenism

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