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Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine

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Editors:
  1. Alex Orenstein

    1. Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

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  2. Petr Kotatko

    1. The Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Germany

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 210)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Epistemology and Naturalism

    1. I, You, and It: An Epistemological Triangle

      • W. V. Quine
      Pages 1-6

    2. Quine and Davidson on Perceptual Knowledge

      • Tadeusz Szubka
      Pages 7-19

    3. Quine and Observation

      • Alexander George
      Pages 21-45

    4. Naturalistic Assumptions

      • A. C. Grayling
      Pages 47-56

    5. Justification, Coherence and Quine

      • Keith Lehrer
      Pages 57-61

    6. Quine, Empiricism, and Truth

      • Lars Bergström
      Pages 63-79

    7. Quine, Wittgenstein, and Holism

      • Roger F. Gibson
      Pages 81-93

    8. Quining The Apriori

      • Nenad Miscevic
      Pages 95-107

    9. The Epistemology of Decision-Making “Naturalised”

      • Olav Gjelsvik
      Pages 109-129

  3. Language and Indeterminacy of Meaning

    1. Four Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Translation

      • Gabriel Segal
      Pages 131-139

    2. Naturalizing Radical Translation

      • Louise Antony
      Pages 141-150

    3. On the Existence of Meanings

      • Paul Horwich
      Pages 151-162

    4. Publicness and Indeterminacy

      • Peter Pagin
      Pages 163-180

    5. Individual and Social in Quine’s Philosophy of Language

      • Frederick Stoutland
      Pages 181-194

  4. Logic and Problems of Reference

    1. Plato’s Beard, Quine’s Stubble And Ockham’s Razor

      • Alex Orenstein
      Pages 195-212

    2. Indeterminacy of Identity of Objects: An Exercise in Metaphysical Aesthetics

      • Terence Parsons
      Pages 213-224

    3. Indefinite Objects of Higher Order

      • Peter Woodruff
      Pages 225-235

    4. On a Milestone of Empiricism

      • Stephen Neale
      Pages 237-346

    5. De Re Modality: Lessons From Quine

      • Greg Ray
      Pages 347-365
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About this book

Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection are by some of the leading figures in their fields and they touch on the most recent turnings in Quine's work. The book also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Questions are raised concerning Quine's views on knowledge: observation, holism, truth, naturalized epistemology; about language: meaning, the indeterminacy of translation, conjecture; and about the philosophy of logic: ontology, singular terms, vagueness, identity, and intensional contexts. Given Quine's preeminent position, this book must be of interest to students of philosophy in general, Quine aficionados, and most particularly to those working in the areas of epistemology, ontology, philosophies of language, of logic, and of science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

    Alex Orenstein

  • The Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Germany

    Petr Kotatko

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