Word and Object, New Edition

Name: Word and Object, New Edition
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ISBN: 9780262518314

ISBN-10: 0262518317

ISBN-13: 9780262518314

Edition: 2013

Authors: Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal

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Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language isa social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as towhat to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition,with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as away of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away frommetaphysics and what Churchland calls the "phony precision" of conceptual analysis. In thecourse of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quineconsiders the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Patricia S. Churchland is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her books include "Brain-Wise" and "Neurophilosophy". In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Dagfinn Follesdal is C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at StanfordUniversity.



Foreword



Preface to the New Edition



Preface to the First Edition



Language and Truth



Beginning with Ordinary Things



The Objective Pull; or, E pluribus unum



The Interanimation of Sentences



Ways of Learning Words



Evidence



Posits and Truth



Translation and Meaning



First Steps of Radical Translation



Stimulation and Stimulus Meaning



Occasion Sentences. Intrusive Information



Observation Sentences



Intrasubjective Synonymy of Occasion Sentences



Synonymy of Terms



Translating Logical Connectives



Synonymous and Analytic Sentences



Analytical Hypotheses



On Failure to Perceive the Indeterminacy



The Ontogenesis of Reference



Words and Qualities



Phonetic Norms



Divided Reference



Predication



Demonstratives. Attributives



Relative Terms. Four Phases of Reference



Relative Clauses. Indefinite Singular Terms



Identity



Abstract Terms



Vagaries of Reference



Vagueness



Ambiguity of Terms



Some Ambiguities of Syntax



Ambiguity of Scope



Referential Opacity



Opacity and Indefinite Terms



Opacity in Certain Verbs



Regimentation



Aims and Claims of Regimentation



Quantifiers and Other Operators



Variables and Referential Opacity



Time. Confinement of General Terms



Names Reparsed



Conciliatory Remarks. Elimination of Singular Terms



Definition and the Double Life



Flight from Intension



Propositions and Eternal Sentences



Modality



Propositions as Meanings



Toward Dispensing with Intensional Objects



Other Objects for the Attitudes



The Double Standard



Dispositions and Conditionals



A Framework for Theory



Ontic Decision



Nominalism and Realism



False Predilections. Ontic Commitment



Entia non grata



Limit Myths



Geometrical Objects



The Ordered Pair as Philosophical Paradigm



Numbers, Mind, and Body



Whither Classes?



Semantic Ascent


Bibliography


Index