Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy

by Colin McGinn

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What kind of subject is philosophy? Colin McGinn takes up this perennial question, defending the view that philosophy consists of conceptual analysis, construed broadly. Conceptual analysis is understood to involve the search for de re essences, but McGinn takes up various challenges to this meta-philosophy: that some concepts are merely family resemblance concepts with no definition in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions ("game," "language");...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199856141

ISBN13:9780199856145

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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