LINGUIST List 10.1795

Wed Nov 24 1999

Books: Philosophy of Language

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1. kap-listman, Knowledge, Language and Logic: Quine, A. Orenstein & P. Kotatko (eds)

Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine
edited by
Alex Orenstein
Wolfson College, Oxford, UK
Petr Kotatko
Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Prague 

BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Volume: 210

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.

CONTENTS

Preface. Epistemology and Naturalism. Language and
Indeterminacy of Meaning. Logic and Problems of Reference. Quine's
Responses. Index.

Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5986-0, December 1999, 448 pp.
NLG 360.00 / USD 190.00 / GBP 119.00

URL of this book: http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-5986-0

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