Working from within : the nature and development of Quine's naturalism / Sander Verhaegh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verhaegh, Sander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman).

Quine, W. V.

Naturalism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 218 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1.2 Naturalism and Analytic Philosophy p. 4

1.3 Working from Within p. 6

1.4 Reading Quine in Historical Context p. 8

1.5 Plan p. 10

Part I Nature

2 Naturalizing Epistemology p. 15

2.2 From Certainty to Straight Psychology p. 18

2.3 Two Strategies p. 24

2.4 Self-Sufficient Sensory Languages p. 26

2.5 Quine's Response to the Skeptic p. 30

2.6 Reinterpreting "Epistemology Naturalized" p. 32

3 Naturalizing Metaphysics p. 36

3.2 Internal and External Existence Claims p. 39

3.3 Two Distinctions p. 42

3.4 Quine on Metaphysical Existence Claims p. 46

3.5 Scientific Sense and Metaphysical Nonsense p. 50

4 In Mediis Rebus p. 54

4.2 Three Commitments p. 56

4.3 A Quirk of Usage p. 62

4.4 Deflation, Deflation, Deflation p. 66

4.5 The Bounds of Science p. 69

4.6 Immanence and Transcendence p. 71

4.7 Artificial Languages p. 74

Part II Development

5 Sign and Object p. 79

5.2 Philosophical Background p. 81

5.3 Starting at the Middle p. 84

5.4 The Nature of Metaphysical Judgments p. 85

5.5 A Pragmatic Interpretation of Positivism p. 88

5.6 The Philosopher's Task p. 90

5.7 Two Problems p. 93

5.8 "Two Dogmas" p. 96

5.9 Language and Knowledge p. 100

6 Analytic and Synthetic p. 103

6.2 Early Developments p. 106

6.2.1 Narrow and Wide Holism p. 106

6.2.2 Mathematical Objects and Mathematical Knowledge p. 111

6.2.3 The Principle of Tolerance p. 114

6.2.4 A Behavioristically Acceptable Definition p. 116

6.2.5 Triangular Correspondence p. 120

6.2.6 Quine on Asemiotism p. 122

6.3 After "Two Dogmas" p. 125

6.3.1 "The Whole of Science" p. 127

6.3.2 Maximal Integration p. 129

6.3.3 Universal Revisability p. 132

6.3.4 Maximal Inclusion p. 136

7 Science and Philosophy p. 141

7.2 Ordinary Language and the Language of Science p. 142

7.3 Philosophy and Science; Science and Philosophy p. 147

7.4 The Reception of QuiNe's Naturalism p. 151

7.5 Adopting an "Ism" p. 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Verhaegh, Sander. Working from within.

ISBN:

9780190913151

0190913150

OCLC:

1041203437

Publisher Number:

40028784172