Author: Penelope Maddy

How do you know the world around you isn’t just an elaborate dream, or the creation of an evil neuroscientist? If all you have to go on are various lights, sounds, smells, tastes and tickles, how can …

How do you know the world around you isn’t just an elaborate dream, or the creation of an evil neuroscientist? If all you have to go on are various lights, sounds, smells, tastes and tickles, how can …

Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but it’s doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. In this book, Penelope Maddy describes and practises a …

Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. For nearly a century, the axioms of set theory have played this role, so the question of how these …

The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "Second …

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The philosopher Penelope Maddy is well-known for her pursuit of ‘Second Philosophy’, a form of naturalism that sees the methods of philosophy as indistinguishable from those of the empirical …

The philosopher Penelope Maddy is well-known for her pursuit of ‘Second Philosophy’, a form of naturalism that sees the methods of philosophy as indistinguishable from those of the empirical …

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