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Author : Roger F. Gibson
Release : 2004-03-29
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Quine by : Roger F. Gibson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Quine written by Roger F. Gibson. This book was released on 2004-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Roger F. Gibson
Release : 2004
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Quine by : Roger F. Gibson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Quine written by Roger F. Gibson. This book was released on 2004. 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.
Author : Matthew J. Brown
Release : 2008
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Book Synopsis On What Quine is by : Matthew J. Brown
Download or read book On What Quine is written by Matthew J. Brown. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book review from the Quine volume of The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy series.
Author : Michael Friedman
Release : 2007-12-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Carnap by : Michael Friedman
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Carnap written by Michael Friedman. This book was released on 2007-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.
Author : Alan Richardson
Release : 2007-09-03
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism by : Alan Richardson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism written by Alan Richardson. This book was released on 2007-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central place in the project. The second wave of interpretative accounts was constructed to show how philosophy should progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism. The essays survey the formative stages of logical empiricism in central Europe and its acculturation in North America, discussing its main topics, and achievements and failures, in different areas of philosophy of science, and assessing its influence on philosophy, past, present, and future.
