Quine on meaning

Quine on meaning / Eve Gaudet.

Willard Van Orman Quine was certainly the greatest analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in 1908, he held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 2000. He made highly important contributions to such areas as mathematical logic, set the...

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Main Author: Gaudet, Eve
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006.
Series:Continuum studies in American philosophy.
Subjects:
Quine, W. V. > (Willard Van Orman)
Meaning (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Betekenis.
Interprétation.
Signification.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Factuality and physicalism
  • Fact of the matter and truth
  • The indeterminacy thesis
  • Behaviorism, neurology and indeterminacy of translation
  • Indeterminacy of translation and underdetermination of theory
  • Chomsky's misunderstanding
  • Rorty's misunderstanding
  • Friedman's misunderstanding
  • Follesdal and Gibson get it right
  • Cognitive science's denial of the asymmetry
  • Conclusion.

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