Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism Ontological and Epistemological Implications of the work of W.V.O. Quine and of N. Goodman
Though the subject of this work, "nominalism and contemporary nom inalism", is philosophical, it cannot be fully treated without relating it to data gathered from a great variety of domains, such as biology and more especially ethology, psychology, linguistics and neurobiology. The source...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Table of Contents:
- 3. Conventionalism versus scientific realism
- Notes
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Nominalism and Constructivism
- 1. Some of the main problems in historical nominalism in relation with the nominalism of Camap’s “Logical Structure of the World”
- 2. Anti-metaphysics and metaphysics, or from ontological neutrality to ontological commitment
- 3. A minimalistic ontological program
- 4. General outline of the new ontology
- 3 Ontology and Epistemology from Empiricism to Conventionalism
- 1. Ontological commitment and empiristic considerations
- 2. “Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen”
- 3. Science is of the general
- 4. Things are sums of qualities
- 5. Evolution towards conventionalism
- 4 Logical Semantics and Ontology
- 1. General outline of some basic problems of logical semantics
- 2. The theory of signification and supposition of Ockham
- 3. Nelson Goodman’s extensionalistic solution
- 5 Linguistic Semantics
- 1. Behaviourism in semantics
- 2. Ockham on the relation between thought and language
- 3. Evolution, cognitivism and the notion of conceptual scheme
- 6 The Individual Ontology and Ideology
- 1. The roots of the problem
- 2. Ontology. The constructivistic individual
- 3. Ideology
- 7 Particular and General
- 1. Building a world out of general abstract elements
- 2. Building a world out of particular concrete elements
- 3. Strawson on the particularities of general terms
- 4. Is perception basically perception of what is particular?
- 5. How do children in fact learn language?
- 8 Thought and Language Intentions and Intensions
- 1. Nominalists and empiricists on universals, concepts, intensions
- 2. Knowledge of brain mechanisms in the past
- 3. Behaviourism versus mentalism
- 4. G.D. Wassermann: a neuropsychological model of thought and language
- 9 Nominalism, Empiricism andConventionalism
- 1. Ockham’s scepticism
- 2. Induction and contemporary nominalism