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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA welcome addition to Maddy's project of articulating Second Philosophy. The breadth and depth of her investigations, including forays into the history and philosophy of early modern science and philosophy, questions about the proper direction and methods of philosophy of science, the relation between ordinary language philosophy and the sciences, and extensive interpretation and analysis of questions in philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics, inspire awe. Maddy has the curiosity and philosophical acumen that are so fully on display in the Second Philosopher. She embodies an integrated history and philosophy of science that is informed by actual science and extracts its philosophical frameworks from the investigation of real cases. I commend the volume to a broad audience, whose members find themselves curious about the various topics as described. * Gary Hatfield, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Maddy's second-philosophical essays over new insight into long-standing questions in the philosophy of science, epistemology, the philosophies of language, logic, mathematics-all with an eye to the methodological themes that connect them. * Mathematical Reviews Clippings *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Method 1. A plea for natural philosophy 2. On the question of realism Skepticism 3. Hume and Reid 4. Moore's hands 5. Wittgenstein on hinges Logic and language 6. A note on of truth and reference 7. The philosophy of logic 8. A second philosophy of logic Mathematics 9. Psychology and the a priori 10. Do numbers exist? 11. Enhanced if-thenism References
