Imitation of Rigor
An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2021
240 pages
978-0-19-265036-8 (ISBN)
Description
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".
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Mark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and the author of Physics Avoidance (OUP 2017) and Wandering Significance (OUP 2006). He has written widely on how our categories for describing the large-scale world around us have progressively evolved, within both science and our ordinary ways of speaking. He also supervises The North American Traditions Collection of Folk Music.
Content
- 1: Ersatz Rigor
- 2: Prospectus
- 3: Inductive Warrant
- Appendix: Historical Complexities
- 4: The Mystery of Physics 101
- Appendix: Hertz' Critique of the Third Law
- 5: Multiscalar Architectures
- Appendix: 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
