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Willard Van Orman Quine

Word and Object

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A new edition of Quine's most important work.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what 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 a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what Churchland calls the phony precision of conceptual analysis.In the course of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of obje… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-262-51831-4
  • EAN: 9780262518314
  • Produktnummer: 14025542
  • Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 312 S.
  • Masse: H15.7 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.4 cm 420 g
  • Gewicht: 420
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 2000. Considered one the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, he is the author of Mathematical Logic, The Roots of Reference, The Time of My Life: An Autobiography (MIT Press), and many other books.Patricia S. Churchland is President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. She is the author of many books, including Neurophilosophy and Brain-Wise (both published by the MIT Press).Dagfinn Føllesdal is C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford University.

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