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Margaret Macdonald
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Abstract
The much-neglected Margaret Macdonald was an important figure in the history of analytic philosophy. This chapter shows that she was an astute interpreter of Wittgenstein, the logical positivists, and Peirce, Lewis, and Ramsey. It shows how a paper she presented at the 1937 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, with Ryle as a commentator, titled ‘Induction and Hypothesis’, heavily influenced Ryle. Macdonald provided him with his most important ideas: the mind as a set of dispositions, laws as inference tickets, and the distinction between knowing that and knowing how. The chapter shows how these were the pillars of pragmatism that Macdonald found in Peirce, Lewis, and Ramsey.
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Abstract
The much-neglected Margaret Macdonald was an important figure in the history of analytic philosophy.
This chapter shows that she was an astute interpreter of Wittgenstein, the logical positivists, and Peirce, Lewis, and Ramsey.
It shows how a paper she presented at the 1937 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, with Ryle as a commentator, titled ‘Induction and Hypothesis’, heavily influenced Ryle.
Macdonald provided him with his most important ideas: the mind as a set of dispositions, laws as inference tickets, and the distinction between knowing that and knowing how.
The chapter shows how these were the pillars of pragmatism that Macdonald found in Peirce, Lewis, and Ramsey.
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