Carnap, Quine, and Putnam on Methods of Inquiry

Informationen zum Autor Gary Ebbs is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Rule-Following and Realism (1997) and Truth and Words (2009), and co-author of Debating Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2012). He has also published articles on a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, logic, and mind, as well as epistemology and the history of analytic philosophy. Klappentext This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions. Zusammenfassung Valuable for scholars of the methodological principles of Carnap! Quine! and Putnam's science-inspired philosophies! including their views of truth! reference! logical truth! truth by convention! the role of rules in inquiry! and analyticity. This clearly structured volume opens up new avenues of thinking inspired by the work of Carnap! Quine! and Putnam. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Carnap: 1. Carnap's logical syntax; 2. Carnap on ontology; Part II. Carnap and Quine: 3. Carnap and Quine on truth by convention; 4. Quine's naturalistic explication of Carnap's logic of science; Part III. Quine: 5. Quine gets the last word; 6. Reading Quine's claim that definitional abbreviations create synonymies; 7. Can logical truth be defined in purely extensional terms?; 8. Reading Quine's claim that no statement is immune to revision; Part IV. Quine and Putnam: 9. Conditionalization and conceptual change: Chalmers in defense of a dogma; 10. Truth and trans-theoretical terms; Part V. Putnam: 11. Putnam and the contextually apriori.

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• Authors: Gary Ebbs, Gary (Indiana University) Ebbs, Ebbs Gary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107178151
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17815-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, 20th Century, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Philosophy: logic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism