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PublisherSpringer Netherlands

ISBN-109027700745

ISBN-139789027700742

eBay Product ID (ePID)1466314

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Number of PagesVIII, 373 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWords and Objections : Essays on the Work of W. V. Quine

Publication Year1975

SubjectGrammar & Punctuation, Language, Logic

TypeTextbook

AuthorJaakko Hintikka

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesSynthese Library

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight56.1 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume Number21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal745.6/19951

Table Of ContentEditorial Introduction.- Quine's Philosophy of Science.- An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object.- Beginning with Ordinary Things.- Quine's Empirical Assumptions.- Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation.- Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation.- Singular Terms and Predication.- Vacuous Names.- Quine's Syntactical Insights.- On Saying That.- Quine on Modality.- Some Problems about Belief.- Quantifying In.- Logic with Platonism.- On the Consistency of a Slight (?) Modification of Quine's New Foundations.- Replies.- Publications of W. V. Quine.

SynopsisIt is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T., It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im- portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com- menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T.

LC Classification NumberBC1-199