Conventionalism传统主义
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作者： Yemima Ben-Menahem著
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出版时间： 2006-4-1字数：版次： 1页数： 330印刷时间： 2006/04/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521826198包装： 精装内容简介
The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This is the first comprehensive study of Conventionalism. Drawing a distinction between two conventionalist theses, the under-determination of science by empirical fact, and the linguistic account of necessity, Yemima Ben-Menahem traces the evolution of both ideas to their origins in Poincaré's geometric conventionalism. She argues that the radical extrapolations of Poincaré's ideas by later thinkers, including Wittgenstein, Quine, and Carnap, eventually led to the decline of conventionalism. This book provides a new perspective on twentieth-century philosophy. Many of the major themes of contemporary philosophy emerge in this book as arising from engagement with the challenge of conventionalism.
作者简介
Yemima Ben-Menahem is Pofessor of Philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is the editor of Hilary Putnam, and co-editor of The Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Physics, a special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
目录
Preface
1 Overview: The Varieties of Conventionalism
2 Origins: Poincare and Duhem on Convention
3 Relativity: From "Experience and Geometry" to "Geometry and Experience"
4 Implicit Definition
5 "Unlimited Possibilities": Carnap on Convention
6 Metaphor and Argument: Quine on Convention
7 Wittgenstein: From Conventionalism to Iconoclasm
References
Index
