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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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Estudios de Filosofía, 2019 En el presente trabajo suscribiremos el sentido de metaescepticismo según el cual la teoría del conocimiento es imposible. Este sentido de metaescepticismo se sostiene sobre dos condiciones aparentemente necesarias: (1) la identificación de uno o ...
David Pérez Chico +1 more
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Quine, Goodman, Putnam: the Harvard Philosophical School
Sententiae, 2022 The article offers formal and doctrinal reasons that prove the existence of the “Harvard Philosophical School” as a real historico-philosophical phenomenon.
Anna Laktionova
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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley +3 more
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 In Peru, fishing has been practiced for more than ten thousand years and still represents one of the most important economic activities. In this paper we are interested in an ancestral fishing practice that persists in time without any significant ...
Marina Quiñe
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Quine, Davidson, Relative Essentialism and the Question of Being
Open Philosophy, 2018 Relative essentialism, the view that multiple objects about which there are distinct de re modal truths can occupy the same space at the same time, is a metaphysical view that dissolves a number of metaphysical issues.
Wheeler Samuel C.
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Kant als metaphilosophischer Skeptizist?
Кантовский сборник, 2023 Throughout history, both philosophers and non-philosophers have doubted that philosophical positions qua philosophical positions are justified and that philosophy is a rational enterprise.
Daniel Minkin
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