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/9780199273669.003.0015
 

Penelope Maddy
Here the book turns to doing, rather than describing, Second Philosophy. In preparation for the philosophy of mathematics in Part IV, Part III takes up the question of the nature of logical truth. In this chapter, several naturalistic possibilities are surveyed and critiqued: psychologism, empiricism, conventionalism and analyticity. This sets the stage for a distinctive second-philosophical account.
Keywords: analyticity, conventionalism, empiricism, logical truth, psychologism
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273669.003.0015
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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