Overview
- Demonstrates the importance of Pap's work for the development of analytic philosophy of science
- Illustrates how Pap's work was the central reference on modality in analytic philosophy before Kripke
- Pap's writings in philosophy of science, modality, and philosophy of mathematics provide insightful alternative perspectives on philosophical problems of current interest
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 334)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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THEMES IN PAP’S PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
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ANALYTICITY, A PRIORITY AND NECESSITY
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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS: TRUTH, PROPOSITIONS, AND REALISM
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About this book
Arthur Pap’s work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap’s views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension in logical empiricism at its very best in the work of Carnap. But Pap’s critique of Carnap is quite different from Quine’s, and represents the discovery of limits beyond which empiricism cannot go, where there lies nothing other than intuitive knowledge of logic itself. Pap’s arguments for this intuitive knowledge anticipate Etchemendy’s recent critique of the model-theoretic account of logical consequence. Pap’s work also anticipates prominent developments in the contemporary neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics championed by Wright and Hale. Finally, Pap’s major philosophical preoccupation, the concepts of necessity and possibility, provides distinctive solutions and perspectives on issues of contemporary concern in the metaphysics of modality. In particular, Pap’s account of modality allows us to see the significance of Kripke’s well-known arguments on necessity and apriority in a new light.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Limits of Logical Empiricism
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers of Arthur Pap
Editors: ALFONS KEUPINK, SANFORD SHIEH
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4299-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4298-0Published: 02 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7099-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4299-7Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 394
Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, general, Logic, Ontology, Philosophy of Language