Gary Ebbs

Carnap, Quine, and Putnam on Methods of Inquiry

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107178151
• ISBN-10: 1107178150
• Artikelnr.: 48398859

Autorenporträt

Gary Ebbs is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Rule-Following and Realism (1997) and Truth and Words (2009), and co-author of Debating Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2012). He has also published articles on a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, logic, and mind, as well as epistemology and the history of analytic philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Carnap: 1. Carnap's logical syntax
2. Carnap on ontology
Part II. Carnap and Quine: 3. Carnap and Quine on truth by convention
4. Quine's naturalistic explication of Carnap's logic of science
Part III. Quine: 5. Quine gets the last word
6. Reading Quine's claim that definitional abbreviations create synonymies
7. Can logical truth be defined in purely extensional terms?
8. Reading Quine's claim that no statement is immune to revision
Part IV. Quine and Putnam: 9. Conditionalization and conceptual change: Chalmers in defense of a dogma
10. Truth and trans-theoretical terms
Part V. Putnam: 11. Putnam and the contextually apriori.