The Cambridge Companion to Quine (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Roger F. Gibson, Jr (PDF)

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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.

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⭐Dear friends. I have found, generally, that all of the “Cambridge Companion” series of books are simply the very, very best starting-places to introduce anyone to their subjects-of-interest, whether philosophy, science, literature, theology, or music, for example. This book: Gibson, Roger F., Jr. (2004). The Cambridge Companion to Quine. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press.I do not understand most things in philosophy.There are so very many contradictory, opposing, or differing, views, of what exactly philosophy itself is, and what it knows, can know, and cannot know. What people can or cannot know through, with, and in philosophy, in human knowledge (and what are its actual limitations). …In any case, a quick look at this book. Here are the things I can relate to or comprehend, and here is where I begin with this book.:1. Robert J. Fogelin, “Aspects of Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology”, pages 19-46. Fogelin quotes Quine: “Quine begins by declaring that “epistemology is concerned with the foundations of science” (EN 69).”. (page 19). [Willard Van Orman Quine, EN = “Epistemology Naturalized”, in: Quine, “Ontological Relativity and Other Essays”. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. See also page 43 in this article by Fogelin, in Gibson’s book, in his quote from Quine (page 43, at the top), and then his comment on its relationship to Peirce (Charles Sanders Peirce [1843-1914 AD]), on this same page.2. Another interesting article, to me, in this book, is: Lars Bergstrom, “Undetermination of Physical Theory”, pp. 91-114. See how Bergstrom quotes Quine: (cf. p. 94): “… Quine asks us to imagine “an exhaustive encyclopedic formulation of our total scientific theory of the world” (EC 28).” EC= Quine, “Empirical Current”, in: Quine, “Theories and Things”. (1981). Cambridge, MASS: Harvard University Press; pp. 24-30.3. For further research on Quine’s philosophy, according to other philosophers! See page 305 of this excellent book by Gibson, in the selected bibliography: See the reference to the article by the Finnish philosophrer, Jaakko Hintikka, …. “Hintikka, Jaakko”, “Three dogmas of Quine’s empiricism”. Review International de Philosophy, 51:457-477.”.Happy reading, all of you! All of you friends of philosophy! In Pennsylvania, March, 2014 AD, Scott R. Harrington, B.A. (psychology).

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