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Nelson Goodman (Hardcover)
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Nelson Goodman (Hardcover)
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Nelson Goodman's acceptance and critique of certain methods and
tenets of positivism, his defence of nominalism and phenomenalism,
his formulation of a new riddle of induction, his work on
notational systems, and his analysis of the arts place him at the
forefront of the history and development of American philosophy in
the twentieth-century. However, outside of America, Goodman has
been a rather neglected figure. In this first book-length
introduction to his work Cohnitz and Rossberg assess Goodman's
lasting contribution to philosophy and show that although some of
his views may be now considered unfashionable or unorthodox, there
is much in Goodman's work that is of significance today. The book
begins with the "grue"-paradox, which exemplifies Goodman's way of
dealing with philosophical problems. After this, the unifying
features of Goodman's philosophy are presented - his
constructivism, conventionalism and relativism - followed by an
discussion of his central work, The Structure of Appearance and its
significance in the analytic tradition. The following chapters
present the technical apparatus that underlies his philosophy, his
mereology and semiotics, which provides the background for
discussion of Goodman's aesthetics. The final chapter examines in
greater depth the presuppositions underlying his philosophy.
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