Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy

by Colin McGinn

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, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"