期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
卷 2, 期 2, 页码 161-179出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-011-0027-5
关键词
Explication; Carnap; Strawson; Definition; Methodology; Precision; Ecological stability; Meaning; Concepts
资金
- Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
Recent criticisms of intuition from experimental philosophy and elsewhere have helped undermine the authority of traditional conceptual analysis. As the product of more empirically informed philosophical methodology, this result is compelling and philosophically salutary. But the negative critiques rarely suggest a positive alternative. In particular, a normative account of concept determination-how concepts should be characterized-is strikingly absent from such work. Carnap's underappreciated theory of explication provides such a theory. Analyses of complex concepts in empirical sciences illustrates and supports this claim, and counteracts the charge explication is only suitable for highly mathematical, axiomatic contexts. Explication is also defended against the influential criticism it is philosophically unilluminating.
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