W. V. Quine 1908–2000 was quite simply the most distinguished
analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century.
His celebrated attack on the analyticsynthetic tradition heralded
a major shift away from the views of language descended from
logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object,
introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a
bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe
thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others. Quine is also famous
for the view that epistemology should be naturalized, that is
conducted in a scientific spirit with the object of investigating
the relationship between the inputs of experience and the outputs
of belief. The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central
topics of Quine''s philosophy: the underdetermination of physical
theory, analycity, naturalism, propositional attitudes,
behaviorism, reference and ontology, positivism, holism and
logic.
目錄:
1. Aspects of Quine''s naturalized epistemology Robert
Fogelin
2. Quine on the intelligibility and relevance of analyticity
Richard Creath
3. Quine''s holisms Ernest Lepore and Raffaella de Rosa
4. Underdetermination of physical theory Lars Bergstrom
5. Quine on reference and ontology Peter Hylton
6. Indeterminacy of translation Robert Kirk
7. Quine''s behaviorism cum empiricism Roger F. Gibson
8. Quine on modality Dagfinn Follesdal
9. Quine and Logical Positivism Daniel Isaacson
10. Quine and logic Joseph S. Ullian
11. Quine on Quine Burton S. Dreben