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Scientific Realism and Anti-realism in Quine’s Philosophy [PDF]
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]
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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On the consistency of Quine’s doctrine
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 main goal of this paper is to work out Quine’s account of explication. Quine does not provide a general account, but considers a paradigmatic example which does not fit other examples he claims to be explications. Besides working out Quine’s account of explication and explaining this tension, I show how it connects to other notions such as ...
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Quine, Goodman, Putnam: the Harvard Philosophical School
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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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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Is Reference Essential to Meaning?
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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A critica behaviorista de W. O. Quine
O artigo comenta a crítica comportamental quineana da semântica e da epistemologia. Quine pretende, com esta crítica, ter produzido contribuições significativas para a clarificação de umas tantas noções, entre elas a de observação, ou de sentença ...
Antonio Trajano Menezes Arruda
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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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