A Plea for Natural Philosophy - Maddy, Penelope (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Pro
116,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Versandkostenfrei*
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
payback
58 °P sammeln
  • Gebundenes Buch

The philosopher Penelope Maddy is well-known for her pursuit of 'Second Philosophy', a form of naturalism that sees the methods of philosophy as indistiguishable from those of the empirical sciences. This volume collects eleven of her recent essays (five new and six reprinted), exploring a range of topics--from methodology, epistemology, and the philosophy of science, to the philosophies of logic, arithmetic, and higher mathematics. Though the topics vary widely, each essay bears in one way or another on the description, exploration, or application of Second Philosophy, revealing the underlying systematic character of Maddy's thought.…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
The philosopher Penelope Maddy is well-known for her pursuit of 'Second Philosophy', a form of naturalism that sees the methods of philosophy as indistiguishable from those of the empirical sciences. This volume collects eleven of her recent essays (five new and six reprinted), exploring a range of topics--from methodology, epistemology, and the philosophy of science, to the philosophies of logic, arithmetic, and higher mathematics. Though the topics vary widely, each essay bears in one way or another on the description, exploration, or application of Second Philosophy, revealing the underlying systematic character of Maddy's thought.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Autorenporträt
Penelope Maddy earned a BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkelely, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of California at Irvine. Maddy is the author of Realism in Mathematics, Naturalism in Mathematics (winner of the 2002 Lakatos Award), Second Philosophy, Defending the Axioms, The Logical Must, and What Do Philosophers Do? Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy, all published with Oxford University Press. Maddy is a former President of the Association for Symbolic Logic and of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), and a current Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.