The Claims of Common Sense - Moore, Wittgenstein, Keynes and the Social Sciences (Hardcover, New)

The Claims of Common Sense investigates the importance of ideas developed by Cambridge philosophers between the World Wars for the social sciences concerning common sense, vague concepts and ordinary language. John Coates examines the thought of Moore, Ramsey, Wittgenstein and Keynes, and traces their common drift away from early beliefs about the need for precise concepts and a canonical notation in analysis. He argues that Keynes borrowed from Wittgenstein and Ramsey their reappraisal of vague concepts, and developed the novel argument that when analysing something as complex as social reality, theory might be simplified by using concepts which lack sharp boundaries. Coates then contrasts this conclusion with the view shared by two contemporary philosophical paradigms - formal semantics and Continental post-structuralism - that the vagueness of ordinary language inevitably leads to interpretive indeterminacy. Developing a link between Cambridge philosophy and work on complexity, vague predicates and fuzzy logic, he argues that Wittgenstein's and Keynes's ideas on the economy of ordinary language present a mediating route for the social sciences between these philosophical paradigms.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	John Coates
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	196
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-41256-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	0-521-41256-0
Barcode:	9780521412568

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