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Quine, Putnam, and the ‘Quine–Putnam’ Indispensability Argument [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2007 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
David Liggins
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A neutralidade ontológica do aspecto formal da lógica moderna de Quine [PDF]
Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 2014 Pretende-se reconstruir e analisar a introdução de O sentido da nova lógica de Quine para, à luz de suas justificativas históricas para o corolário sistema lógico moderno, procurar defender a neutralidade ontológica que seu aspecto formal possibilita.
Bárbara Araldi Tortato
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2004 In two papers in the mid-seventies, Quine has discussed an ontological deba-cle, the reduction of ontology to an ontology of pure sets only. This debacle, which weakened Quine’s interest in ontology, is the natural outcome of on-tological relativity, or,
Lieven Decock
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Scientific Realism and Anti-realism in Quine’s Philosophy [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 In this essay, we try to address a fundamental issue in the philosophy of science, namely the conflict between realism and antirealism in Quine's philosophy.
Amir Hajizadeh
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The poverty of the stimulus: Quine and Wittgenstein [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2014 Quine and Wittgenstein were dominant figures in philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century. Many readers, like Quine himself, have felt that there are deep similarities between the two thinkers, though those similarities are difficult to ...
O’Sullivan Michael
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Is Reference Essential to Meaning?
Metaphysics, 2020 Most linguists and philosophers will tell you that whatever meaning is, it determines the reference of names, the satisfaction conditions of nouns and verbs, the truth conditions of sentences; in linguist speak, meaning determines semantic value.
Mark Richard
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On the consistency of Quine’s doctrine
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 Through his critique of traditional semantics, his attack on the “myth of a museum”, Quine established different relationships between the theses of the inscrutability of reference, the indeterminacy of translation and the underdetermination of theories
Nélida Gentile
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The Behaviorisms of Skinner and Quine: Genesis, Development, and Mutual Influence [PDF]
, 2018 in april 1933, two bright young Ph.D.s were elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows: the psychologist B. F. Skinner and the philosopher/logician W. V. Quine.
Verhaegh, Sander
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‘Quine’s Meaning Nihilism: Revisiting Naturalism and Confirmation Method,’ [PDF]
, 2017 The paper concentrates on an appreciation of W.V. Quine’s thought on meaning and how it escalates beyond the meaning holism and confirmation holism, thereby paving the way for a ‘meaning nihilism’ and ‘confirmation rejectionism’.
Chakraborty, Dr Sanjit
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The Quinean Roots of Lewis's Humeanism [PDF]
, 2017 An odd dissensus between confident metaphysicians and neopragmatist antimetaphysicians pervades early twenty-first century analytic philosophy. Each faction is convinced their side has won the day, but both are mistaken about the philosophical legacy of ...
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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