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Quine's Naturalism: Language, Theory and the Knowing Subject

Quine's Naturalism: Language, Theory and the Knowing Subject

Gregory, Paul A.
Paul a Gregory

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Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy, Book 9

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1441105115
ISBN13: 9781441105110
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Jan 5 2012
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. His views, however, have not been well understood. Critics charge that Quine's naturalized epistemology is circular and that it cannot be normative. Yet, such criticisms stem from a cluster of fundamental traditional assumptions regarding language, theory, and the knowing subject - the very presuppositions that Quine is at pains to reject. Through investigation of Quine's views regarding language, knowledge, and reality, the author offers a new interpretation of Quine's naturalism. The naturalism/anti-naturalism debate can be advanced only by acknowledging and critiquing the substantial theoretical commitments implicit in the traditional view.

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