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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: logical must
    sub title: Wittgenstein on logic
  name:
    name part: Maddy, Penelope
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 135 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "Second Philosophy." The Second Philosopher is a humble but tireless inquirer who begins her investigation of the world with ordinary perceptual beliefs, moves from there to empirical generalizations, then to deliberate experimentation, and eventually to theory formation and confirmation. She takes this same approach to logical truth, locating its ground in simple worldly structures and our knowledge of it in our basic cognitive machinery, tuned by evolutionary pressures to detect those structures where they occur. In his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein also links the logical structure of representation with the structure of the world, but he includes one key unnaturalistic assumption: that the sense of our representations must be given prior to-independently of-facts about how the world is. When that assumption is removed, the general outlines of the resulting position come surprisingly close to the Second Philosopher's roughly empirical account. In his later discussions of logic in Philosophical Investigations and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Wittgenstein also rejects this earlier assumption in favor of a picture that arises in the wake of the famous rule-following considerations. Here Wittgenstein and the Second Philosopher operate in even closer harmony-locating the ground of our logical practices in our interests, our natural inclinations and abilities, and very general features of the world-until the Second Philosopher moves to fill in the account with her empirical investigations of the world and cognition. At this point, Wittgenstein balks, but as a matter of personal animosity rather than philosophical principle"--
  abstract: "Maddy's short monograph looks at Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, from the perspective of the form of naturalism that she calls "second philosophy." That view takes an empirical approach to logical truth -- essentially arguing that if philosophers want to understand the world, they should start from a position informed by scientific understandings of the world, because science is often a reliable guide to how the world works. Similarly, just like science, logic is also grounded in the structure of our world, and our basic cognitive machinery is tuned by evolutionary pressures to detect that structure where it occurs. Ludwig Wittgenstein (particularly in the "Tractatus") also linked the logical structure of representation with the structure of the world, but still insisted that the sense of our representations must be given prior to -- independently of -- any facts about how the world happens to be. When that requirement is removed, Wittgenstein's position in the Tractatus approaches Maddy's Second Philosophy -- that logic is grounded in the structure of the world and our representational systems reflect that structuring. The later Wittgenstein also hews closely to Second Philosophy, holding that our logical practices are grounded in our interests and motivations, and our natural inclinations, and the features of the world. In this sense, logic is no different from other descriptions of the world -- just more general and responding to features so basic and ubiquitous that they tend to go unnoticed. Maddy's Second Philosophy finds Wittgenstein as an important precursor and kindred spirit, and promotes a new view of him as a naturalistic phliosopher"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Kant on logic -- II. Naturalizing Kant on logic -- III. The Tractatus -- IV. Naturalizing the Tractatus -- V. Rule-following and logic -- VI. But isn't logic special?! -- VII. Naturalizing the logical must -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Penelope Maddy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kant, Immanuel
      name part: 1724-1804
  subject:
    topic: Naturalism
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / Logic
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
  classification: B3376.W564 M155 2014
  classification: 160.92
  classification: PHI011000 PHI016000
  identifier: 9780199391752 (hardback)
  identifier: 0199391750 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014003096
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140724
    record change date: 20151206123259.0
    record identifier: in00003490576
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng