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W.V. Quine /
"Orenstein's thorough knowledge both of Quine and of philosophical logic put him in an ideal position to explain and discuss Quine's seminal contributions. He does it with clarity and accuracy, and to his illuminating exposition he adds perceptive comment and incisive criticism. This...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chesham [England] :
Acumen,
2002.
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| Colección: | Philosophy now (Teddington, London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Expressing an ontology; The new way of construing existence claims; The new logic: a canonical notation; The semantic side of ontological commitment; Challenging Quine on expressing existence; 3 Deciding on an ontology; Some rival twentieth-century ontologies; Opting for an ontology: indispensability arguments; Qidne's ontology; Conflict with Carnap over ontology; Inscrutability of reference; Challenging Quine: indispensability arguments; 4 The spectre of a priori knowledge; The problem of a priori knowledge
- Duhemian-Holistic empiricism and the dogma of reductionismThe effects of dispensing with the a priori; Challenging Quine: naturalism and the a priori; 5 The nature of logic; Analyticity as logical truth; Expressing the principles of logic and set theory; Are logic and mathematics true by convention?; Challenging Quine: a broader conception of logic; 6 Analyticity and indeterminacy; Dispensing with meanings; Other attempts to explicate analyticity; The indeterminacy conjecture; Contrasting indeterminacy and underdetermination
- Contrasting inscrutability of reference and indeterminacy of meaningChallenging Quine: analyticity and indeterminacy; 7 Intensional contexts; Modal logic; The quotation, paradigm; De dicto and de re modality: quotation and essentialism; Challenging Quine: possible world semantics and the new theory of reference; Pronositional attitudes; Challenging Quine: attitudes without objects; 8 Nature, know thyself; Epistemology naturalized; A natural history of reference; Challenging Quine on epistemology; Notes; Bibliography; Index