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Quine was one of the foremost philosophers of the Twentieth century. In this outstanding overview of Quine's philosophy, Peter Hylton shows why Quine is so important and how his philosophical naturalism has been so influential within analytic philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Quine�...

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Autor principal: Hylton, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicat: New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.
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Accés en línia:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033874.html
Taula de continguts:
  • Overview: Quine's naturalism
  • Quine's philosophical background: beginnings; logic; Carnap
  • The analytic-synthetic distinction
  • Reconceiving epistemology
  • The beginnings of cognitive language: shared responses to stimulation and observation sentences
  • Beyond the observation sentences
  • Theory and evidence
  • Radical translation and its indeterminacy
  • Quinean metaphysics: limning the structure of reality
  • A framework for theory: the role of logic
  • Extensionality, reference, and singular terms
  • Ontology, physicalism, realism
  • Minds, beliefs, and modality.