The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root
both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates
through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution
comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This book provides a
comprehensive study of Conventionalism. Drawing a distinction
between two conventionalist theses, the under-determination of
science by empirical fact, and the linguistic account of necessity,
Yemima Ben-Menahem traces the evolution of both ideas to their
origins in Poincare's geometric conventionalism. She argues that
the radical extrapolations of Poincare's ideas by later thinkers,
including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Carnap, eventually led to the
decline of conventionalism. This book provides a fresh perspective
on twentieth-century philosophy. Many of the major themes of
contemporary philosophy emerge in this book as arising from
engagement with the challenge of conventionalism.
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