The claims of common sense : Moore, Wittgenstein, Keynes and the social sciences / John Coates.

By:

Coates, J. (John) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xiii, 178 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521412560
9780521412568

Subject(s):

Philosophy, English -- 20th century

DDC classification:

300.1 20

LOC classification:

H61 .C497 1996

Online resources:

Sample text

Contents:

1. A short history of common sense -- 2. Ideal languages and vague concepts: the transition in Cambridge philosophy -- 3. Keynes and Moore's common sense -- 4. Keynes's later views on vagueness and definition -- 5. Samples, generalizations and ideal types -- 6. The Cambridge philosophical community-- Conclusion: complexity, vagueness, and rhetoric.

Summary: In this compelling book, John B. Davis examines the change and development in Keynes's philosophical thinking, from his earliest work through to The general theory, arguing that Keynes came to believe himself mistaken about a number of his early philosophical concepts. The author begins by looking at the unpublished Apostles papers, written under the influence of the philosopher G.E. Moore. These display the tensions in Keynes's early philosophical views and outline his philosophical concepts of the time, including the concept of intuition. Davis then shows how Keynes's later philosophy is implicit in the economic argument of The general theory. He argues that Keynes's philosophy had by this time changed radically, and that he had abandoned the concept of intuition for the concept of convention. The author sees this as being the central idea in The general theory, and looks at the philosophical nature of this concept of convention in detail.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this compelling book, John B. Davis examines the change and development in Keynes's philosophical thinking, from his earliest work through to The general theory, arguing that Keynes came to believe himself mistaken about a number of his early philosophical concepts. The author begins by looking at the unpublished Apostles papers, written under the influence of the philosopher G.E. Moore. These display the tensions in Keynes's early philosophical views and outline his philosophical concepts of the time, including the concept of intuition. Davis then shows how Keynes's later philosophy is implicit in the economic argument of The general theory. He argues that Keynes's philosophy had by this time changed radically, and that he had abandoned the concept of intuition for the concept of convention. The author sees this as being the central idea in The general theory, and looks at the philosophical nature of this concept of convention in detail.

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