Review article. Common sense: a middle way between formalism and post-structuralism?
评论了约翰·科茨的《常识的主张》，认为常识哲学是剑桥经济学和哲学的核心，代表了形式主义与后结构主义之间的可行中间道路，并重点分析了常识与形式主义的对立。
John Coates's The Claims of Common Sense argues that common-sense philosophy is central to Cambridge economics and philosophy, and represents a viable middle way between formalism and post-structuralism. This paper concentrates on the opposition between common sense and formalism. The latter is explained in terms of Quine's formal semantics and neoclassical axiomatic choice theory, which share a critique of ordinary language, a commitment to logical determinacy, a functionalist view of mind, and the idea of ontology driven by logic. Coates's common-sense Cambridge alternative is explained in terms of Wittgenstein's and Keyne's views on vagueness.