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Pooh and the Philosophers
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ISBN: 0413693503 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Methuen

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Histoire des idées dans les îles Britanniques
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ISBN: 2130473105 9782130473107 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,


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Bertrand Russell : l'atomisme logique
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ISBN: 2130475418 9782130475415 Year: 1996 Volume: 70 Publisher: Paris PUF

The claims of common sense : Moore, Wittgenstein, Keynes, and the social sciences
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ISBN: 0521412560 0521039584 0511520026 9780521412568 9780521039581 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Claims of Common Sense investigates the importance of ideas developed by Cambridge philosophers between the World Wars for the social sciences concerning common sense, vague concepts and ordinary language. John Coates examines the thought of Moore, Ramsey, Wittgenstein and Keynes, and traces their common drift away from early beliefs about the need for precise concepts and a canonical notation in analysis. He argues that Keynes borrowed from Wittgenstein and Ramsey their reappraisal of vague concepts, and developed the novel argument that when analysing something as complex as social reality, theory might be simplified by using concepts which lack sharp boundaries. Coates then contrasts this conclusion with the view shared by two contemporary philosophical paradigms - formal semantics and Continental post-structuralism - that the vagueness of ordinary language inevitably leads to interpretive indeterminacy. Developing a link between Cambridge philosophy and work on complexity, vague predicates and fuzzy logic, he argues that Wittgenstein's and Keynes's ideas on the economy of ordinary language present a mediating route for the social sciences between these philosophical paradigms.

John Locke and the ethics of belief
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ISBN: 0521551188 052155909X 0511598238 Year: 1996 Volume: 2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses the ethics of belief which Locke developed in Book IV of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, where Locke finally argued his overarching aim: how we ought to govern our belief, especially on matters of religion and morality. Wolterstorff shows that this concern was instigated by the collapse, in Locke's day, of a once-unified moral and religious tradition in Europe into warring factions. His was thus a culturally and socially engaged epistemology. This view of Locke invites a new interpretation of the origins of modern philosophy. He maintained that instead of following tradition we ought to let 'reason be our guide.' Accordingly, after discussing Hume's powerful attack on Locke's recommended practice, Wolterstorff argues for Locke's originality and emphasizes his contribution to the 'modernity' of post-sixteenth-century philosophy.

Philosophical studies c.1611-c.1619
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ISBN: 019812290X 9780198122906 Year: 1996 Volume: 6 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Russell et le cercle des paradoxes
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ISBN: 2130466729 9782130466727 Year: 1996 Volume: *57 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

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