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Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine

By Alex Orenstein , Petr Kotatko (eds.) , W. V. Quine (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2000
ISBN
978-1-4020-0253-3, 978-94-011-3933-5
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-3933-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10691736 bytes)
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 210
Edition
1
Pages
446\444
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Philosophy of Science; Logic; Linguistics (general

Description

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.

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