Conventionalism
"The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root of so-called necessary truths, on the one hand, and much of empirical science, on the other, reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. Convent...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38444252*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview : the varieties of conventionalism
- Origins : Poincaré and Duhem on convention
- Relativity : from "experience and geometry" to "geometry and experience"
- Implicit definition
- "Unlimited possibilities" : Carnap on convention
- Metaphor and argument : Quine on convention
- Wittgenstein : from conventionalism to iconoclasm.
