Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Epistemology and Naturalism

   1. I, You, and It: An Epistemological Triangle

      • W. V. Quine

      Pages 1-6

   2. Quine and Davidson on Perceptual Knowledge

      • Tadeusz Szubka

      Pages 7-19

   3. Quine and Observation

      • Alexander George

      Pages 21-45

   4. Naturalistic Assumptions

      • A. C. Grayling

      Pages 47-56

   5. Justification, Coherence and Quine

      • Keith Lehrer

      Pages 57-61

   6. Quine, Empiricism, and Truth

      • Lars Bergström

      Pages 63-79

   7. Quine, Wittgenstein, and Holism

      • Roger F. Gibson

      Pages 81-93

   8. Quining The Apriori

      • Nenad Miscevic

      Pages 95-107

   9. The Epistemology of Decision-Making “Naturalised”

      • Olav Gjelsvik

      Pages 109-129

3. Language and Indeterminacy of Meaning

   1. Four Arguments for the Indeterminacy of Translation

      • Gabriel Segal

      Pages 131-139

   2. Naturalizing Radical Translation

      • Louise Antony

      Pages 141-150

   3. On the Existence of Meanings

      • Paul Horwich

      Pages 151-162

   4. Publicness and Indeterminacy

      • Peter Pagin

      Pages 163-180

   5. Individual and Social in Quine’s Philosophy of Language

      • Frederick Stoutland

      Pages 181-194

4. Logic and Problems of Reference

   1. Plato’s Beard, Quine’s Stubble And Ockham’s Razor

      • Alex Orenstein

      Pages 195-212

   2. Indeterminacy of Identity of Objects: An Exercise in Metaphysical Aesthetics

      • Terence Parsons

      Pages 213-224

   3. Indefinite Objects of Higher Order

      • Peter Woodruff

      Pages 225-235

   4. On a Milestone of Empiricism

      • Stephen Neale

      Pages 237-346

   5. De Re Modality: Lessons From Quine

      • Greg Ray

      Pages 347-365

Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection are by some of the leading figures in their fields and they touch on the most recent turnings in Quine's work. The book 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. Given Quine's preeminent position, this book must be of interest to students of philosophy in general, Quine aficionados, and most particularly to those working in the areas of epistemology, ontology, philosophies of language, of logic, and of science.

• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Plato
• epistemology
• language
• logic
• philosophy
• science
• truth

• Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

  Alex Orenstein

• The Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Germany

  Petr Kotatko

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