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 | #775040 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2011-12-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.30 x.90 x9.40l,.90 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A brilliant and surprising work of philosophy|By Joe Mckay|TRUTH BY ANALYSIS (2012) has a number of interesting goals. The first goal is to bring more attention to an earlier work by Bernard Suits, written in 1978, called THE GRASSHOPPER: GAMES, LIFE AND UTOPIA.

This book, Colin McGinn argues, successfully provides a conceptual analysis of the concept of games. And i| ||"McGinn's thesis is big, bold, and controversial. Even those who are dubious will find a |lot to admire in his clearly written and vigorously argued book."--David Haugen, Philosophy in ||"A bold attempt to defend conceptual analysis as the proper me

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"); that it is impossi...

You easily download any file type for your device.Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy   |  Colin McGinn. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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