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340 Pages·2006·1.424 MB·English
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by Yemima Ben-Menahem| 2006| 340 pages| 1.424| English

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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 Poincar?'s geometric conventionalism. She argues that the radical extrapolations of Poincar?'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.

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Author:Yemima Ben-Menahem
Publication Year:2006
ISBN:9780521826198
Pages:340
Language:English
File Size:1.424
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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