All We Need Is a Paradigm

By Phin Upham

I’ve edited a collection of essays called “All We Need Is a Paradigm.” It was published in 2009 by Open Court Publishing Company and covers the topics of science, economics, and logic. Some of the authors include Israel M. Kirzner, George S. Boolos, Marie McGINN, Luciano Berio, and Richard G. Heck, Jr.

The three major themes come up again and again in the essays and often lead to fruitful philosophical insight—the nature of language, the nature of causality, and the nature of human cognition. Many authors point to the problem Wittgenstein critiqued as the confounding vagaries of language itself—“deep disquietudes, their roots are as deep in us as the forms of our language.” Continue reading →