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Fifty Years of Quine's "Two Dogmas"

Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042009486
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of Quine's "Two Dogmas" written by Hans-Johann Glock and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. V. Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", first published in 1951, is one of the most influential articles in the history of analytic philosophy. It does not just question central semantic and epistemological views of logical positivism and early analytic philosophy, it also marks a momentous challenge to the ideas that conceptual analysis is a main task of philosophy and that philosophy is an a priori discipline which differs in principle from the empirical sciences. These ideas dominated early analytic philosophy, but similar views are to be found in the Kantian tradition, in phenomenology and in philosophical hermeneutics. In questioning this consensus from the perspective of a radical empiricism, Quine's article has had a sustained and lasting impact across all these philosophical divisions. Quine himself moved from the abandonment of the analytic/synthetic distinction to a thoroughgoing naturalism, and many analytic philosophers have followed his lead. The current collection differs from other anthologies devoted to Quine in two respects. On the one hand, it focuses on his attack on analyticity, apriority and necessity; on the other, it considers implications of that attack that far transcend the limits of Quine scholarship, and lie at the heart of the current self-understanding of philosophy. The contributors include both opponents and proponents of the dichotomies attacked by Quine. Furthermore, they include both eminent figures such as Boghossian, Burge, and Davidson, and up and coming younger philosophers.

Otto Neurath’s Economics in Context

Author : Elisabeth Nemeth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402069057
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Otto Neurath’s Economics in Context written by Elisabeth Nemeth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was a highly unorthodox thinker both in philosophy and economics. The contributions to this sparkling new book conclude that Neurath touched on many of the most critical problems of economic theory during its formative years as a modern discipline. His economics provide insights into the foundational problems of modern economics and should encourage contemporary economic theorists to critically reflect their own hidden presumptions.

Analyticity and a Priority Quine's Rejections of Two Dogmas

Author : Serap Eldere Keles
Publisher : Sentez Yayıncılık
ISBN 13 : 6257906385
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Analyticity and a Priority Quine's Rejections of Two Dogmas written by Serap Eldere Keles and published by Sentez Yayıncılık. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyticity and a Priority Quint's Rejections of Two Dogmas This work will present a conceptual background and show how the line between analytic and synthetic propositions success-fully was drawn throughout early modern and followed by contemporary philosophy. In the traditionalists' interpretation, we will see how Quine dismisses the synonymous contents of analytic statements and why he unnecessarily denies any possibility of analytic statements that are a priori justified. The second wend of Quine's dlytMlelll will be scrutinized along with the discussion of his thesis, that'no statement is immune to revision'. We will see how Quine's argument leads him only to deadlock, which he primarily tries to avoid. At the end of this book, several approaches will be proposed where the analyticity and a priority are clearly distinguished from the empirical justifi-cation. By and large, Quine's arguments against a priority and the purported separation of analytic and synthetic statements will be critically analysed.

What Philosophers Know

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478273
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book What Philosophers Know written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy has never delivered on its promise to settle the great moral and religious questions of human existence, and even most philosophers conclude that it does not offer an established body of disciplinary knowledge. Gary Gutting challenges this view by examining detailed case studies of recent achievements by analytic philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Gettier, Lewis, Chalmers, Plantinga, Kuhn, Rawls, and Rorty. He shows that these philosophers have indeed produced a substantial body of disciplinary knowledge, but he challenges many common views about what philosophers have achieved. Topics discussed include the role of argument in philosophy, naturalist and experimentalist challenges to the status of philosophical intuitions, the importance of pre-philosophical convictions, Rawls' method of reflective equilibrium, and Rorty's challenge to the idea of objective philosophical truth. The book offers a lucid survey of recent analytic work and presents a new understanding of philosophy as an important source of knowledge.

Reading Putnam

Author : Maria Baghramian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415530067
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Reading Putnam written by Maria Baghramian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary Putnam is one of the world's leading philosophers. His work has made enormous contributions to a rich variety of philosophical topics and debates. Reading Putnam is essential reading for students studying philosophy of mind, language and philosophy of science, and anyone interested in twentieth century philosophy.

Word and Object, new edition

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518317
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Word and Object, new edition written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Quine's most important work. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what Churchland calls the "phony precision" of conceptual analysis. In the course of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.

Logic in Question

Author : Jean-Yves Béziau
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030944522
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Logic in Question written by Jean-Yves Béziau and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-11 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume collects papers related to the Logic in Question workshop, which has taken place annually at Sorbonne University in Paris since 2011. Each year, the workshop brings together historians, philosophers, mathematicians, linguists, and computer scientists to explore questions related to the nature of logic and how it has developed over the years. As a result, chapter authors provide a thorough, interdisciplinary exploration of topics that have been studied in the workshop. Organized into three sections, the first part of the book focuses on historical questions related to logic, the second explores philosophical questions, and the third section is dedicated to mathematical discussions. Specific topics include: • logic and analogy• Chinese logic• nineteenth century British logic (in particular Boole and Lewis Carroll)• logical diagrams • the place and value of logic in Louis Couturat’s philosophical thinking• contributions of logical analysis for mathematics education• the exceptionality of logic• the logical expressive power of natural languages• the unification of mathematics via topos theory Logic in Question will appeal to pure logicians, historians of logic, philosophers, linguists, and other researchers interested in the history of logic, making this volume a unique and valuable contribution to the field.

Theology After Neo-Pragmatism

Author : Adonis Vidu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606084712
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Theology After Neo-Pragmatism written by Adonis Vidu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the thesis that Evangelical theology not only cannot afford to avoid engaging with the philosophy of neo-pragmatism, but it can also benefit from the proposals of some of its leading exponents, especially Donald Davidson. Three different themes run throughout the book: meaning epistemic justification, and ontology. How can theologians be confident of the meanings ascribed to religious beliefs in the wake of the dissolution of the very concept of meaning and of the analytic-synthetic distinction? Is there any rational fraction between our beliefs, religious or mundane, and some extra-linguistic reality? Is God something more than simply a symbolic construct associated with a certain manner of speaking? The surprising thought of Donald Davidson offers resources for Evangelical theology seeking hopeful answers to these troubling questions. Davidson's rejection of the so-called 'third dogma' of empiricism, namely the dualism of scheme of content, should be welcomed by those defending theological 'rationality' and refuting relativism and incommensurability. Furthermore, his truth-conditional semantics can serve as a check against revisionist accounts of religious beliefs that flaunt the first-person point of view of the religious believer herself. These Davidsonian contributions to an Evangelical theology are, however, balanced by inherent inadequacies which require a theological supplement, which is also a creative proposal calling for: the continued significance of experience in theology beyond the myth of the Given; an understanding of the role of Scripture as both epistemic as well as dispositional; and finally an understanding of the nature of truth as located in the mind of God. Theology After Neo-Pragmatism is both an introduction to an influential philosophical trend, and a critical and constructive theological proposal which is at once scriptural and historicist, pragmatic and realist.

A Companion to W. V. O. Quine

Author : Gilbert Harman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470672102
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to W. V. O. Quine written by Gilbert Harman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion brings together a team of leading figures in contemporary philosophy to provide an in-depth exposition and analysis of Quine’s extensive influence across philosophy’s many subfields, highlighting the breadth of his work, and revealing his continued significance today. Provides an in-depth account and analysis of W.V.O. Quine’s contribution to American Philosophy, and his position as one of the late twentieth-century’s most influential analytic philosophers Brings together newly-commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy Covers Quine’s work across philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, ontology and metaphysics, epistemology, and more Explores his work in relation to the origins of analytic philosophy in America, and to the history of philosophy more broadly Highlights the breadth of Quine’s work across the discipline, and demonstrates the continuing influence of his work within the philosophical community

The Cambridge Companion to Quine

Author : Roger F. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639491
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Quine written by Roger F. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Cambridge Companion to Quine

Author : Roger F. Gibson, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825801
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Quine written by Roger F. Gibson, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. V. Quine (1908–2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others. Quine is also famous for the view that epistemology should be naturalized, that is conducted in a scientific spirit with the object of investigating the relationship between the inputs of experience and the outputs of belief. The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of Quine's philosophy: the underdetermination of physical theory, analycity, naturalism, propositional attitudes, behaviorism, reference and ontology, positivism, holism and logic.

Epistemic Friction

Author : Gila Sher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081299
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Friction written by Gila Sher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gila Sher approaches knowledge from the perspective of the basic human epistemic situation—the situation of limited yet resourceful beings, living in a complex world and aspiring to know it in its full complexity. What principles should guide them? Two fundamental principles of knowledge are epistemic friction and freedom. Knowledge must be substantially constrained by the world (friction), but without active participation of the knower in accessing the world (freedom) theoretical knowledge is impossible. This requires a grounding of all knowledge, empirical and abstract, in both mind and world, but the fall of traditional foundationalism has led many to doubt the viability of this 'classical' project. The book challenges this skepticism, charting a new foundational methodology, foundational holism, that differs from others in being holistic, world-oriented, and universal (i.e., applicable to all fields of knowledge). Using this methodology, Epistemic Friction develops an integrated theory of knowledge, truth, and logic. This includes (i) a dynamic model of knowledge, incorporating some of Quine's revolutionary ideas while rejecting his narrow empiricism, (ii) a substantivist, non-traditional correspondence theory of truth, and (iii) an outline of a joint grounding of logic in mind and world. The model of knowledge subjects all disciplines to robust norms of both veridicality and conceptualization. The correspondence theory is at once robust, universal, and flexible, allowing multiple patterns of correspondence, including complex and indirect patterns. Logic's systematic grounding brings it in line with other disciplines without neglecting its strong necessity, generality, and normativity, which are explained by its semantic formality.

A Companion to Donald Davidson

Author : Ernest Lepore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118328272
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Donald Davidson written by Ernest Lepore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson’s work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind

Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science

Author : David J. Stump
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317495381
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science written by David J. Stump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science. Stump emphasizes the unique epistemological status of the constitutive elements of scientific theories, constitutive elements being the necessary preconditions that must be assumed in order to conduct a particular scientific inquiry. These constitutive elements, such as logic, mathematics, and even some fundamental laws of nature, were once taken to be a priori knowledge but can change, thus leading to a dynamic or relative a priori. Stump critically examines developments in thinking about constitutive elements in science as a priori knowledge, from Kant’s fixed and absolute a priori to Quine’s holistic empiricism. By examining the relationship between conceptual change and the epistemological status of constitutive elements in science, Stump puts forward an argument that scientific revolutions can be explained and relativism can be avoided without resorting to universals or absolutes.

Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe

Author : Timothy Tambassi (Ed.)
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3868382135
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe written by Timothy Tambassi (Ed.) and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the death of Edward Jonathan Lowe (1950-2014), the analytical philosophy lost one of the most influential thinkers of the last thirty-five years. His contributions include (but are not limited to) philosophy of mind, John Locke's philosophy and metaphysics. In particular, concerning metaphysical studies, the most innovative part of Lowe's philosophical perspective is the four-category ontology that, according to the author, provides an exhaustive inventory of what there is and a powerful explanatory framework for a metaphysical foundation of natural science. Accordingly, the purpose of this volume is to collect some new essays from distinguished authorities in the field, critics and collaborators of Lowe in order to present some fundamental issues triggered by his ontological proposal.

Constituting Objectivity

Author : Michael Bitbol
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402095104
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Constituting Objectivity written by Michael Bitbol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-29 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant. The usual excuse for skipping this task is that the historical form given by Kant to transcendental epistemology has been challenged by Relativity and Quantum Physics. However, the true challenge is not to force modern physics into a rigidly construed static version of Kant’s philosophy, but to provide Kant’s method with flexibility and generality. In this book, the top specialists of the field pin down the methodological core of transcendental epistemology that must be used in order to throw light on the foundations of modern physics. First, the basic tools Kant used for his transcendental reading of Newtonian Mechanics are examined, and then early transcendental approaches of Relativistic and Quantum Physics are revisited. Transcendental procedures are also applied to contemporary physics, and this renewed transcendental interpretation is finally compared with structural realism and constructive empiricism. The book will be of interest to scientists, historians and philosophers who are involved in the foundational problems of modern physics.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy

Author : Dermot Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134424027
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy written by Dermot Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was one of the most significant and exciting periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterized by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is an outstanding authoritative survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Featuring twenty-two chapters written by leading international scholars, this collection is divided into five clear parts and presents a comprehensive picture of the period for the first time: major themes and movements logic, language, knowledge and metaphysics philosophy of mind, psychology and science phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, and critical theory politics, ethics, aesthetics. Featuring annotated further reading and a comprehensive glossary, The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is indispensable for anyone interested in philosophy over the last one hundred years, suitable for both expert and novice alike.