Exercises in Analysis
Essays by Students of Casimir Lewy

This is a volume of specially commissioned essays of analytical philosophy, on topics of current interest in ethics and the philosophy of logic and language.

Ian Hacking (Edited by)

9780521109659, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2009

220 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.33 kg

This is a volume of specially commissioned essays of analytical philosophy, on topics of current interest in ethics and the philosophy of logic and language. Among the topics discussed are the making of wicked promises, G. E. Moore's early ethical views, as well as indexicals, tense, indeterminism, conventionalism in mathematics, and identity and necessity. The essays are all by former students of Casimir Lewy, until recently Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and an exponent of a particularly thoroughgoing form of philosophical analysis. Together, they represent some of the best work in these areas at present, and express what may be described as a characteristic 'Cambridge' voice.

Preface
1. wicked promises J. E. J. Altham
2. Ethical non-naturalism Thomas Baldwin
3. Supervenience revisited Simon Blackburn
4. Indexicals and tense Jeremy Butterfield
5. Arithmetic and fact Edward Craig
6. Rules, scepticism, proof, Wittgenstein Ian Hacking
7. Propositions, indeterminancy and holism David Holdcroft
8. Names, identity and necessity Peter Smith
9. In defence of the Conventional Wisdom Crispin Wright
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: History of Western philosophy [HPC]