Frank Ramsey and the Realistic Spirit. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steven Methven.
• Authors: Methven, Steven, 1978-
• Contents: Table Of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: THE REALISTIC SPIRIT; 1. The Realistic Spirit; 1.1. Realism And The Realistic; 1.2. Playing Not-Bridge; 1.2.1. Three Contrasts; 1.2.2. Playing And Contravention; 1.2.3. The Comfort Of Pretence; 1.2.4. Parsimony And Pretending; 2. Empiricism, Solipsism And The Realistic; 2.1. Empiricism And The Realistic; 2.1.1. Berkeley, Russell, And The Language Of God; 2.1.2. The Given; 2.2. Solipsism And The Realistic; 3. Pragmatism And The Realistic; 3.1. Probability; 3.1.1. Degrees Of Belief; 3.1.2. Peirce And Probability; 3.1.3. Rationality, Inquiry And Reasonableness; 3.2. Truth; 3.2.1. On Truth; 3.2.2. Truth And Inquiry; 3.3. Ramsey As Pragmatist; PART II: MEANING; 4. Ramsey And Wittgenstein: First Encounters; 4.1. Pictures; 4.1.1. Representation And Sense; 4.1.2. Pictorial And Logical Form; 4.2. Propositions; 4.2.1. Type And Token; 4.2.2. Truth And Meaning; 5. The Mystical; 5.1. Ramsey And The Mystical; 5.1.1. Internal Properties; 5.1.2. Making Clear; 5.2. Ramsey And Nonsense; 5.2.1. Existential Statements; 5.2.2. Identity Statements; 5.2.3. Logical And Semantic Properties; 5.2.4. Mathematical Statements; 5.2.5. Ramsey And Semantics; 6. Truth And Meaning; 6.1. Facts And Judgement; 6.2. Judgement; 6.2.1. Chicken Beliefs; 6.2.2. Beliefs, Private States And Representation; 6.3. Belief And Representation; 6.3.1. Names, Objects And Antirealism; 6.3.2. Mental Signs; 6.3.3. Belief And Causation; 6.3.4. Belief, Language And Forms Of Life; 6.4. Objections; 6.4.1. Judging Nonsense; 6.4.2. What Is Squiggle?; 6.4.3. Realism And The Realistic; PART III: MATHEMATICS; 7. The Foundation Of Mathematics; 7.1. Tractarian Logicism; 7.2. Identity In The Tractatus; 7.2.1. Wittgenstein On Identity; 7.2.2. The Tractarian Convention; 7.3. Ramsey's Definition Of '='; 7.3.1. The Problem Of Essential Classes; 7.3.2. Identity In Principia; 7.3.3. Propositional Functions In Extension; 7.3.4. What Could A PFE Be?; 8. Logical Revolt; 8.1. Ramsey And Hilbert; 8.1.1. Generalisation; 8.1.2. The -Operator; 8.2. The Entscheidungsproblem; 8.2.1. Decidability And The Logic Of The Tractatus; PART IV: INFLUENCE; 9. Generality, Rules And Normativity; 9.1. Generality; 9.1.1. Quantification In The Tractatus; 9.1.2. Ramseys' Criticisms; 9.1.3. Ramsey And The Infinite; 9.1.4. Wittgenstein And The Infinite; 9.2. Rules And Normativity; 9.2.1. Philosophical Investigations §81; 9.2.1. Rules And Games; 9.2.3. Normativity; References
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 192; Science; Movements/Analytic; Movements/Realism; Philosophy: logic; Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137351098; 1137351098
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