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Second Philosophy - A Naturalistic Method (Paperback)
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Second Philosophy - A Naturalistic Method (Paperback)
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Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but
it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term.
In this book, Penelope Maddy describes and practices a particularly
austere form of naturalism called "Second Philosophy." Without a
definitive criterion for what counts as "science" and what doesn't,
Second Philosophy can't be specified directly - "trust only the
methods of science " or some such thing - so Maddy proceeds instead
by illustrating the behaviors of an idealized inquirer she calls
the "Second Philosopher." This Second Philosopher begins from
perceptual common sense and progresses from there to systematic
observation, active experimentation, theory formation and testing,
working all the while to assess, correct and improve her methods as
she goes. Second Philosophy is then the result of the Second
Philosopher's investigations.
Maddy delineates the Second Philosopher's approach by tracing her
reactions to various familiar skeptical and transcendental views
(Descartes, Kant, Carnap, late Putnam, van Fraassen), comparing her
methods to those of other self-described naturalists (especially
Quine), and examining a prominent contemporary debate (between
disquotationalists and correspondence theorists in the theory of
truth) to extract a properly second-philosophical line of thought.
She then undertakes to practise Second Philosophy in her
reflections on the ground of logical truth, the methodology,
ontology and epistemology of mathematics, and the general prospects
for metaphysics naturalized.
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