Philosophical Devices

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David Papineau was educated in Trinidad, England, and South Africa. He has a BSc in mathematics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a BA and PhD in philosophy from Cambridge. He has lectured at Reading University, Macquarie University, Birkbeck College London, and Cambridge University. Since 1990 he has been Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He was President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science from 1993 to 1995. In 1999-2000 he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow and in 2007 a Mind Fellow. He was President of the Mind Association for 2009-10. In 2010 he gave the Rudolf Carnap Lectures in Bochum, Germany and in 2011 the Gottlob Frege Lectures in Tartu, Estonia.

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA
作者:David Papineau
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页数:224
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出版时间:2012-9
价格:USD 22.95
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780199651733
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  • 分析哲学 
  • 方法论 
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This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like "denumerability," "modal scope distinction," "Bayesian conditionalization," and "logical completeness" are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, Philosophical Devices is able to cover a wealth of material that is normally only available to specialists.

The book contains four sections, each of three chapters. The first section is about sets and numbers, starting with the membership relation and ending with the generalized continuum hypothesis. The second is about analyticity, a prioricity, and necessity. The third is about probability, outlining the difference between objective and subjective probability and exploring aspects of conditionalization and correlation. The fourth deals with metalogic, focusing on the contrast between syntax and semantics, and finishing with a sketch of Godel's theorem.

Philosophical Devices will be useful for university students who have got past the foothills of philosophy and are starting to read more widely, but it does not assume any prior expertise. All the issues discussed are intrinsically interesting, and often downright fascinating. It can be read with pleasure and profit by anybody who is curious about the technical infrastructure of contemporary philosophy.

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A clear, concise explanation of key technical ideas in philosophy

An invaluable resource for students

Stimulating and entertaining--works to improve the reader's argumentative skills

No prior knowledge assumed--will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand contemporary philosophy

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对分析哲学完全爱不起来啊。。。

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感觉没有到200页啊。确实有小错。不过不碍事。

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发现了个小错,告诉作者能否骗他一封推荐信?(以前在Loux的Metaphysics也发现了个小错,还没跟他联系呢。)

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a gentle primer to more serious reads

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对分析哲学完全爱不起来啊。。。

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