Words and Objections Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine
It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1969, 1969
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1969 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Editorial Introduction
- Quine’s Philosophy of Science
- An Introduction to ‘Translation and Meaning’, Chapter Two of Word and Object
- Beginning with Ordinary Things
- Quine’s Empirical Assumptions
- Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation
- Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation
- Singular Terms and Predication
- Vacuous Names
- Quine’s Syntactical Insights
- On Saying That
- Quine on Modality
- Some Problems about Belief
- Quantifying In
- Logic with Platonism
- On the Consistency of a Slight (?) Modification of Quine’s New Foundations
- Replies
- Publications of W. V. Quine