Alex Orenstein

Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Alex Orenstein 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Epistemology and Naturalism.- I, You and It: an Epistemological Triangle.- Quine and Davidson on Perceptual Knowledge.- Quine and Observation.- Naturalistic Assumptions.- Justification, Coherence and Quine.- Quine, Empiricism and Truth.- Quine, Wittgenstein and Holism.- Quining The Apriori.- The Epistemology of Decision-Making Naturalised .- Language and Indeterminacy of Meaning.- Four Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Translation.- Naturalizing Radical Translation.- On the Existence of Meanings.- Publicness and Indeterminacy.- Individual and Social in Quine s Philosophy of Language.- Logic and Problems of Reference.- Plato s Beard, Quine s Stubble and Ockham s Razor.- Indeterminacy of Identity of Objects: An Exercise in Metaphysical Aesthetics.- Indefinite Objects of Higher Order.- On a Milestone of Empiricism.- De Re Modality: Lessons from Quine.- Opacity and the Attitudes.- Quine s Responses.- Index of Names."Publisher Marketing: Quine is one of the 20th century's most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection touch on turnings in his work. The text also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Questions are raised concerning Quine's views on knowledge: observation, holism, truth, naturalized epistemology; about language: meaning, the indeterminacy of translation, conjecture; and about the philosophy of logic: ontology, singular terms, vagueness, identity, and intensional contexts. This book should be of interest to students of philosophy in general, Quine aficionados, and most particularly to those working in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and philosophies of language, logic, and science.