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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verhaegh, Sander, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Quine, W. V.

Naturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 218 pages)

Other Title:

Nature and development of Quine's naturalism

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

During the past few decades, a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relation between science and philosophy. A great number of analytic philosophers have adopted what is commonly called a 'naturalistic' approach, arguing that their inquiries ought to be in some sense continuous with science. Where early analytic philosophers often relied on a sharp distinction between science and philosophy - the former an empirical discipline concerned with fact, the latter an a priori discipline concerned with meaning-philosophers today largely follow Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) in his seminal rejection of this distinction. This text offers a comprehensive study of Quine's naturalism.

Contents:

Naturalizing epistemology

Naturalizing metaphysics

In Mediis Rebus

Sign and object

Analytic and synthetic

Science and philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091318-5

0-19-091316-9

0-19-091317-7