Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy;
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Product details:
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 1 January 2005
- ISBN 9780197262917
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 243x163x21 mm
- Weight 627 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Questions about knowledge, and the relation between logic and language, are at the heart of philosophy. In this book, eleven philosophers from Britain and America contribute papers on such questions. The first half offers a debate about knowledge, evidence and doubt. The second half tackles questions about logic and its relation to language.
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Eleven papers by distinguished British and American philosophers are brought together in this volume. Five of the contributors engage in effect in a running debate about knowledge. How does knowledge relate to evidence? How reliable need one be to have knowledge? Once sceptical doubt has been introduced is there any untainted evidence to show that it is misplaced? Does verificationism succeed in showing that scepticism is untenable? Or is there a natural propensity for belief which explains why we are not in fact sceptics? The other six tackle questions about logic and its relation to language. Can one give a 'realist' account of logical truth without supposing that logic has a subject-matter? How do theories of descriptions fare when tested by their handling of functions? How can indirect speech report someone's use of words like 'this'? Does our language count for or against adopting second-order logic? These papers, given in the British Academy Philosophical Lectures series, are all examples of recent philosophy at its best.
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Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge ; Knowledge, Truth, and Reliability ; Facts and Certainty ; Advice to Philosophers: Three New Leaves to Turn Over ; Two Types of Naturalism ; The Theory of Descriptions ; Understanding Logical ConstantsL A Realist's Account ; Indexicals and Reported Speech ; Reported Indexicals ; On Higher-Order Logic and Natural Language ; On Motivating Higher-Order Logic
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