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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hylton, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.
Subjects:
Quine, W. V. > (Willard Van Orman)
Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman) > Philosophy > Naturalism
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033874.html
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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