0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic

Buy Now

Quine versus Davidson - Truth, Reference, and Meaning (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,198
Discovery Miles 21 980
Quine versus Davidson - Truth, Reference, and Meaning (Hardcover): Gary Kemp

Quine versus Davidson - Truth, Reference, and Meaning (Hardcover)

Gary Kemp

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,198 Discovery Miles 21 980 | Repayment Terms: R206 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson are usually regarded as birds of a feather. The two disagreed in print on various matters over the years, but fundamentally they seem to be in agreement; most strikingly, Davidson's thought experiment of Radical Interpretation looks to be a more sophisticated, technically polished version of Quinean Radical Translation. Yet Quine's most basic and general philosophical commitment is to his methodological naturalism, which is ultimately incompatible with Davidson's main commitments. In particular, it is impossible to endorse, from Quine's perspective, the roles played by the concepts of truth and reference in Davidson's philosophy of language: Davidson's employment of the concept of truth is from Quine's point of view needlessly adventurous, and his use of the concept of reference cannot be divorced from unscientific 'intuition'. From Davidson's point of view, Quine's position looks needlessly scientistic, and seems blind to the genuine problems of language and meaning. Gary Kemp offers a powerful argument for Quine's position, and in favour of methodological naturalism and its corollary, naturalized epistemology. It is possible to give a consistent and explanatory account of language and meaning without problematic uses of the concepts truth and reference, which in turn makes a strident naturalism much more plausible.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2012
Authors: Gary Kemp
Dimensions: 221 x 145 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969562-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-969562-8
Barcode: 9780199695621

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Truth and Realism
Patrick Greenough, Michael P Lynch Hardcover R3,863 Discovery Miles 38 630
Foundations without Foundationalism - A…
Stewart Shapiro Hardcover R5,547 Discovery Miles 55 470
Bayesian Rationality - The probabilistic…
Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater Hardcover R5,743 Discovery Miles 57 430
Hume's Problem - Induction and the…
Colin Howson Hardcover R3,738 Discovery Miles 37 380
In Contradiction
Graham Priest Hardcover R4,957 Discovery Miles 49 570
Logic on the Track of Social Change
David Braybrooke, Bryson Brown, … Hardcover R1,576 Discovery Miles 15 760
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke Paperback R842 Discovery Miles 8 420
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke Paperback R764 Discovery Miles 7 640
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding…
John Locke Paperback R804 Discovery Miles 8 040
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke Paperback R651 Discovery Miles 6 510
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke Paperback R766 Discovery Miles 7 660
A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual…
Alexander Jamieson Paperback R572 Discovery Miles 5 720

See more

Partners