Words and Objections
Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine
Published on 30. April 1975
Book
Hardback
VIII, 373 pages
978-90-277-0074-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Edition type
Revised edition
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VIII, 373 p.
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Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
743 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-0074-2 (9789027700742)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-1709-1
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Persons
Jaakko Hintikka
is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal
Synthese
and the Managing Editor of
Synthese
Library
since 1965.
Content
Editorial 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.