Frank Ramsey and the Realistic Spirit [electronic resource] /
Methven, Steven.author.
This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights.
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Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Seriors Editors' Foreword                                ; Acknowledgements                       ; List of 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, enquiry and reasonableness                                                    ; 3.2 Truth                ; 3.2.1 On truth                     ; 3.2.2 Truth and enquiry                              ; 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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights.
Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903-1930.
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