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Quine on meaning /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gaudet, Eve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006.
Colección:Continuum studies in American philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.