Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy Mark Wilson

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192896466
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192896469
• Author(s): Mark Wilson

J.L. Austin has written of “the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act”. By revisiting a classic “small metaphysics” puzzle drawn from physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing, Imitation of Rigor employs recent insights into the architectures of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin’s covert “mechanisms” operate in concrete terms. By these means, the book attempts to reconnect analytic philosophy with the evolving practicalities within science from which many of its grander concerns originally sprang. In doing so, it provides an “alternative history” of how the subject might have developed had the diagnostic insights of its philosopher/scientist forebears (e.g. Heinrich Hertz and Ernst Mach) not been cast aside in the vain pursuit of inappropriate standards of “ersatz rigor”.

Table contents:

1. Ersatz Rigor

2. Prospectus

3. Inductive Warrant

Appendix: Historical Complexities

4. The Mystery of Physics 101Appendix: Hertz’ Critique of the Third Law

5. Multiscalar ArchitecturesAppendix: Further Comments on Homogenization

6. Diversity in “Cause”

7. Dreams of a Final Theory T

8. Linguistic Scaffolding and Scientific Realism

9. Truth in a Multiscalar Landscape

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