Radical interpretation and indeterminacy / Timothy McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Timothy, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Prospect. 1.2. Some Recent History. 1.3. Conformal Interpretation. 1.4. Logic and Radical Interpretation. 1.5. The Limits of Determinacy. 1.6. Credo

Ch. 2. Radical interpretation. 2.1. The Problem. 2.2. The Minimal Framework. 2.3. Isomorphism and Indeterminacy. 2.4. Conformal Explanation and Semantic Content. 2.5. Conformal Interpretation. 2.6. Conclusion

Ch. 3. The Roots of Reference. 3.1. Naming and Conformality. 3.2. Observation Terms. 3.3. Homogeneous Natural Kind Terms. 3.4. Grounding the Model. 3.5. Reference to Inhomogeneous Kinds

Ch. 4. The Ground of Logic. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Framework 1. 4.3. Invariance 1. 4.4. Completeness and Determinacy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-53173-8

9786610531738

0-19-803313-3

1-4237-6334-3

OCLC:

191827187