Gary Kemp

Quine Versus Davidson

Truth, Reference, and Meaning

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Produktbeschreibung

Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. He reveals unexplored tensions between the views of Quine and Davidson, and presents a powerful argument in favour of Quine and methodological naturalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780199695621
• ISBN-10: 0199695628
• Artikelnr.: 47866724

Autorenporträt

Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He taught previously at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and completed his PhD at the University of California. He is the author of Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2006), and, with Tracy Bowell, Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide (Routledge, third edition 2009); together with Chris Belshaw, he is also editor of Twelve Modern Philosophers (Blackwell 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Facets of Naturalism
2: Davidson's Semantics
3: Truth, Deflationism, and the T-schema
4: Quine versus Davidson on Reference
5: Living with Naturalism
References
Index