Essays in Analysis
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Essays in Analysis

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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Essays in Analysis

About this book

First published in English in 1966, Essays in Analysis addresses the problems in logic and foundations of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The problems are all root problems in their fields and range from questions concerning our knowledge of the external world to questions about logical entailment, mathematical proof, and induction. Their treatment is not guided by any underlying systematic view, as is characteristic in speculative philosophy. The unity and orientation of the collection are instead provided by the method employed throughout, the method of analysis. A central method of philosophy from Zeno to the present has been analysis of concepts, and the guiding idea throughout these essays is that analysis is the only means by which philosophers can bring clarification to their subject. The complaint has been made that clarity is not enough; but unless it is steadfastly pursued, obscurity and confusion are free to pass for profundity.

As will be evident from even a cursory view reading of these studies, all are deeply influenced by Moore and Wittgenstein, with whom the author studied for some years at Cambridge university. This is an interesting read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032641690
eBook ISBN
9781003835608

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Preface
  8. Contents
  9. 1. Proof and the Theorem Proved
  10. 2. Self-contradictory Suppositions
  11. 3. Wittgenstein on Some Questions in Foundations of Mathematics
  12. 4. Finitism and 'The Limits of Empiricism'
  13. 5. Invention and Discovery
  14. 6. On Entailment and Logical Necessity
  15. 7. Wittgenstein on Universals
  16. 8. Unknowables and Logical Atomism
  17. 9. Linguistic Approaches to Philosophical Problems
  18. 10. The Problem of Linguistic Inadequacy
  19. 11. The Problem of Justifying Inductive Inference
  20. 12. Three Aspects of Moore's Philosophy
  21. 13. Moore's 'Proof of An External World'
  22. 14. Factual, Mathematical and Metaphysical Inventories
  23. Index