Second Philosophy
A Naturalistic Method
Maddy, Penelope University of California, Irvine
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927366-9
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273669.003.0014
 

Penelope Maddy
In his Wandering Significance, Wilson presents a complex and subtle account of how our concept words function in relation to the world, an account that can be seen as elaborating and extending the simple idea of an indication relation. The second-philosophical disquotationalist happily absorbs all this into her account of word-world correlations. Along the way, Wilson is hostile to disquotationalism in general, but his objections are to those who would use disquotationalism to avoid or denounce concrete word-world connections, not to the second-philosophical disquotationalist.
Keywords: disquotationalism, reference, truth, Wilson, word-world connections
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273669.003.0014
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Part I What is Second Philosophy?
Part II The Second Philosopher at Work
Part III The Second Philosophy of Logic
Part IV Second Philosophy and Mathematics