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Second Philosophy - A Naturalistic Method (Hardcover, New)
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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 practises 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 behaviours 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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