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Interpretations of Quine’s “Naturalized Epistemology” and the Character of “Naturalization of Law”

Marek Jakubiec

Semina Scientiarum > 2015 > 14

Quine’s project of “naturalized epistemology” is usually interpreted as a rejection of classical epistemology, which becomes merely a “chapter of psychology”. It does not imply, however, a different understanding of the character of naturalization is inadequate or wrong. Susan Haack’s interpretations are briefly analyzed in the paper. Thereafter, they are harnessed as models of interpretation of the...

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NATURALIZMUS A SKEPTICIZMUS

Mariana Szapuová, Martin Nuhlíček

Filozofia (Philosophy) > 2020 > 75 > 9 > 760 – 775

The problem of scepticism is one of the central problems in traditional epistemology which has its place also in contemporary analytically oriented epistemology. However, from the point of view of naturalized epistemology, scepticism is shifting to the periphery of interest. The subject of the paper is the relationship between scepticism and naturalism, which in contemporary epistemology are understood...

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Parsimony and Ontological Control: Quine and Wittgenstein on the Size of The World

Mitchell Atkinson III

Dialogue and Universalism > 2020 > 1 > 85-103

In this paper, I argue that philosophers, while developing ontologies, can be classed as misers or profligates. I develop the categories of ontological miserliness and ontological profligacy and supply explanatory examples. I explore the theoretical motivation of both misers and profligates in terms of thought-time and inquiry scope. In brief, misers prioritize thought-time over inquiry scope; vice-versa...

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The exercise of the object

Charles Travis

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences > 2019 > 18 > 5 > 893-917

What is an object? A prior question: What is objecthood? Au fond, and to logic’s eye, object is a role to be played with respect to a thought (on a decomposition). It is to be a countable which that thought represent as being some way for such a countable to be; what restores the business of truth-of to that of truth outright. What plays that role for some given thought is then an object with respect...

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Perspectives on the Logical Study of Language

Jaakko Hintikka

Logica Universalis > 2019 > 13 > 2 > 151-163

Published originally as “Loogisen kielentutkimuksen näköaloja”, Ajatus 19, (1956), pp. 81–96, the following piece by Jaakko Hintikka is the first essay he published in his mother tongue of Finnish. It is seen to provide both a state-of-the-art review of current topics emerging in the philosophy of language in the mid-1950, as well as outlines of Hintikka’s own evaluation of major theses of that era,...

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Resolving Scheffler and Chomsky’s Problems on Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitments

Jolly Thomas

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research > 2019 > 36 > 2 > 229-245

This paper resolves the problems raised by Israel Scheffler and Noam Chomsky against Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment. I call Scheffler’s and Chomsky’s problems as (1) the problem of inexorable ontological commitments and (2) the problem of false existential inferences. I extend their problems to a third one, which is called as the problem of extended inexorable ontological commitments...

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Developing Metalogic to Formalize Ontological Disputes of the Systems in Metaphysics by Introducing the Notion of Functionally Isomorphic Quantifiers

Jolly Thomas

Logica Universalis > 2018 > 12 > 3-4 > 461-492

A general meta-logical theory is developed by considering ontological disputes in the systems of metaphysics. The usefulness of this general meta-logical theory is demonstrated by considering the case of the ontological dispute between the metaphysical systems of Lewis’ Modal Realism and Terence Parsons’ Meinongianism. Using Quine’s criterion of ontological commitments and his views on ontological...

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Quine's Naturalism and Behaviorisms

Tony Cheng

Metaphilosophy > 49 > 4 > 548 - 567

This paper investigates the complicated relations between various versions of naturalism, behaviorism, and mentalism within the framework of W. V. O. Quine's thinking. It begins with Roger Gibson's reconstruction of Quine's behaviorisms and argues that it lacks a crucial ontological element and misconstrues the relation between philosophy and science. After getting clear of Quine's naturalism, the...

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Sign and Object: Quine’s forgotten book project

Sander Verhaegh

Synthese > 2019 > 196 > 12 > 5039-5060

W. V. Quine’s first philosophical monograph, Word and Object (1960), is widely recognized as one of the most influential books of twentieth century philosophy. Notes, letters, and draft manuscripts at the Quine Archives, however, reveal that Quine was already working on a philosophical book in the early 1940s; a project entitled Sign and Object. In this paper, I examine these and other unpublished...

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Quine on Shared Language and Linguistic Communities

Matej Drobňák

Philosophia > 2018 > 46 > 1 > 83-99

In this paper, I discuss Quine’s views on language sharing and linguistic communities. It is sometimes explicitly and often implicitly taken for granted that Quine believes that speakers can form communities in which they share a language. The aim of the paper is to show that this is a misinterpretation and, on the contrary, Quine is closer to linguistic individualism – the view according to which...

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On being called something

Geoff Georgi

Linguistics and Philosophy > 2017 > 40 > 6 > 595-619

Building on recent work by Delia Graff Fara and Ora Matushansky on appellative constructions like ‘Mirka called Roger handsome’, I argue that if Millianism about proper names is true, then the quantifier ‘something’ in ‘Mirka called Roger something’ is best understood as a kind of substitutional quantifier. Any adequate semantics for such quantifiers must explain both the logical behavior of ‘Mirka...

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Radical Interpretation and Logical Pluralism

Piers Rawling

Topoi > 2019 > 38 > 2 > 277-289

I examine Quine’s and Davidson’s arguments to the effect that classical logic is the one and only correct logic. This conclusion is drawn from their views on radical translation and interpretation, respectively. I focus on the latter, but I first address, independently, Quine’s argument to the effect that the ‘deviant’ logician, who departs from classical logic, is merely changing the subject. Regarding...

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Quine's ‘needlessly strong’ holism

Sander Verhaegh

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A > 2017 > 61 > C > 11-20

Quine is routinely perceived as having changed his mind about the scope of the Duhem-Quine thesis, shifting from what has been called an 'extreme holism' to a more moderate view. Where the Quine of 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' argues that “the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science” (1951, 42), the later Quine seems to back away from this “needlessly strong statement of holism” (1991,...

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Do Religious Beliefs Have a Place within an ‘Epistemically Naturalized’ Cognitive System?

Graham Wood

Sophia > 2017 > 56 > 4 > 539-556

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Absolutyzm logiczny a ontologia

Andrzej Wilk

Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne > 2017 > 5 > 289-297

Tekst jest poświęcony związkowi między logiką a ontologią w kontekście problemu prawdziwości zdań o przyszłości. Jednym z rozważanych problemów jest „niewrażliwość” logiki klasycznej na ontologiczny problem determinizm-indeterminizm.

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Is ontology the key to understanding tense?

Yuval Dolev

Synthese > 2018 > 195 > 4 > 1741-1749

In this paper I claim that as bitter as the eternalist/presentist rivalry is, as far as both camps are concerned, a third position—which I defend—is more disturbing. The reason is that what eternalists and presentists agree on is more fundamental than what they disagree about. They agree that time carves, to use Orilia’s term, “ontological inventories.” This in a way answers the “fundamental question”—what...

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Global expressivism and the flight from metaphysics

Jonathan Knowles

Synthese > 2017 > 194 > 12 > 4781-4797

In recent work Huw Price has defended what he calls a global expressivist approach to understanding language (and/or thought) and its relation to the physical world. Global expressivism rejects a representationalist picture of the language-world relation and thereby, by intention at least, also a certain metaphysical conception of what are commonly known as placement problems: how entities of the...

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On Quine’s Translation Argument

V. Alexis Peluce

Topoi > 2019 > 38 > 2 > 315-320

Quine's translation argumnent figures centrally in his views on logic. The goal of this paper is to get clear on that argument. It can be interpreted as an argument to the effect that one should never translate somebody’s speech as going against a law of the translator’s logic. Key to this reading of the translation argument is the premise that one should never translate somebody's speech such that...

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Translating Logical Terms

Stewart Shapiro

Topoi > 2019 > 38 > 2 > 291-303

The is an old question over whether there is a substantial disagreement between advocates of different logics, as they simply attach different meanings to the crucial logical terminology. The purpose of this article is to revisit this old question in light a pluralism/relativism that regards the various logics as equally legitimate, in their own contexts. We thereby address the vexed notion of translation,...

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The Grammar of Platonism

Hartley Slater

Logica Universalis > 2016 > 10 > 4 > 533-541

In this paper, based on a critical analysis of ideas of Frege, Quine and Prior, we show how Lambda Calculus and Hilbert’s Epsilon Calculus are useful to give us a good understanding of Platonic objects.

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Interpretations of Quine’s “Naturalized Epistemology” and the Character of “Naturalization of Law”

NATURALIZMUS A SKEPTICIZMUS

Parsimony and Ontological Control: Quine and Wittgenstein on the Size of The World

The exercise of the object

Perspectives on the Logical Study of Language

Resolving Scheffler and Chomsky’s Problems on Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitments

Developing Metalogic to Formalize Ontological Disputes of the Systems in Metaphysics by Introducing the Notion of Functionally Isomorphic Quantifiers

Quine's Naturalism and Behaviorisms

Sign and Object: Quine’s forgotten book project

Quine on Shared Language and Linguistic Communities

On being called something

Radical Interpretation and Logical Pluralism

Quine's ‘needlessly strong’ holism

Do Religious Beliefs Have a Place within an ‘Epistemically Naturalized’ Cognitive System?

Absolutyzm logiczny a ontologia

Is ontology the key to understanding tense?

Global expressivism and the flight from metaphysics

On Quine’s Translation Argument

Translating Logical Terms

The Grammar of Platonism

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