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Truth by Analysis - Games, Names, and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Truth by Analysis - Games, Names, and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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What kind of subject is philosophy? Colin McGinn takes up this
perennial question, defending the view that philosophy consists of
conceptual analysis, construed broadly. Conceptual analysis is
understood to involve the search for de re essences, but McGinn
takes up various challenges to this meta-philosophy: that some
concepts are merely family resemblance concepts with no definition
in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions ("game,"
"language"); that it is impossible to provide sufficient conditions
for some philosophically important concepts without circularity
("knowledge," "intentional action"); that there exists an unsolved
paradox of analysis; that there is no well-defined
analytic-synthetic distinction; that names have no definition; and
that conceptual analysis is not properly naturalistic. Ultimately,
McGinn finds none of these objections convincing: analysis emerges
as both possible and fruitful.
At the same time, he rejects the idea of the "linguistic turn,"
arguing that analysis is not directed to language as such, but at
reality. Going on to distinguish several types of analysis, with an
emphasis on classical decompositional analysis, he shows different
philosophical traditions to be engaged in conceptual analysis when
properly understood. Philosophical activity has the kind of value
possessed by play, McGinn claims, which differs from the kind of
value possessed by scientific activity. The book concludes with an
analytic discussion of the prospects for traditional ontology and
the nature of instantiation.
McGinn's study of the nature of philosophy shows us how philosophy
can maintain its connection to the past while looking forward to a
bright future.
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