Quine: A Guide for the PerplexedA&C Black, 2006 M05 24 - 208 páginas Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. No serious student of modern analytic philosophy can afford to ignore Quine's work. Yet there is no doubt that it presents a considerable challenge. The book offers clear explication and analysis of Quine's writings and ideas in all those areas of philosophy to which he contributed (except technical matters in logic). Quine's work is set in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism. Detailed attention is paid to Word and Object, Quine's seminal text, and to his important theories on the nature of truth, knowledge and reality. This text presents an account of Quine's philosophy as a unified whole, identifying and exploring the themes and approaches common to his seemingly disparate concerns, and showing this to be the key to understanding fully the work of this major modern thinker. |
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3 The indeterminacy of translation | 35 |
4 Naturalized epistemology and the roots of reference | 68 |
5 Truth ontology and the language of science | 95 |
6 Extenionality and abstract ontology | 128 |
7 Science philosophy and common sense | 151 |
Bibliography | 174 |
Index | 177 |
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accept according to Quine analytic philosophy analytic truth answer arithmetic behaviour Carnap chapter child collateral information concept convention defined dicto disposed to assent empirical empiricism English entities example existence existential existential quantifications experience explained expression extensional fact first-order predicate calculus FLPV formulate Frege Gavagai Hahn and Schilpp holism human knowledge Hume idea indeterminacy of translation induction kind learning linguistic Loch Ness Monster logical truth mathematics matter modal native natural science naturalized epistemology necessarily notion numbers observation categoricals observation sentences occasion sentences philosophical physical objects planet principle priori problem propositional attitudes quantifier Quine calls Quine puts Quine's rabbit rabbit-stage Ralph believes reason reductionism referential relation relevant scientific semantical sense sensory receptors sensory stimulation simply singular terms sort standing sentences statements stimulus meaning supposed synonymy Tarski theoretical theory thesis things tion translation manual true truth-functional truth-value variable verbal dispositions whole Word and Object