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Author |
: Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2013-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262312806 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262312808 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Word and Object, new edition by : Willard Van Orman Quine
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 objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.
Author |
: Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2013-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262518314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262518317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Word and Object, new edition by : Willard Van Orman Quine
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 objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.
Author |
: Steven Roman |
Publisher |
: "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1565927257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781565927254 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Word Macros by : Steven Roman
Many Microsoft Word users and VBA programmers don't realize the extensive opportunities that exist when Word's object model is accessed using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). By creating what is commonly called a "Word macro," you can automate many features available in Word. Writing Word Macros (previously titled Learning Word Programming) is the introduction to Word VBA that allows you to do these things and more. Book jacket.
Author |
: Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231083572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231083577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ontological Relativity and Other Essays by : Willard Van Orman Quine
Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by W. V. Quine in Word and Objects, the essays included herein are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge.
Author |
: Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2008-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674027558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674027558 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quintessence by : Willard Van Orman Quine
Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap. Influenced by Russell and especially by Carnap, another towering figure, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908Ð2000) emerged as the most important proponent of analytic philosophy during the second half of the century. Yet with twenty-three books and countless articles to his creditÑincluding, most famously, Word and Object and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"ÑQuine remained a philosopher's philosopher, largely unknown to the general public. Quintessence for the first time collects Quine's classic essays (such as "Two Dogmas" and "On What There Is") in one volumeÑand thus offers readers a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. Divided into six parts, the thirty-five selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced.
Author |
: Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674739507 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674739505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pursuit of Truth by : Willard Van Orman Quine
In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge?'The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega ofthe scientific enterprise. Notions like "idea" and "meaning" are vague, but a sentence-now there's something you can sink your teeth into. Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. Rich, lively chapters dissect his major concerns-evidence, reference, meaning, intension, and truth. "Some points;' he writes, "have become clearer in my mind in the eight years since Theories and Things. Some that were already clear in my mind have become clearer on paper. And there are some that have meanwhile undergone substantive change for the better." This is a key book for understanding the effort that a major philosopher has made a large part of his life's work: to naturalize epistemology in the twentieth century. The book is concise and elegantly written, as one would expect, and does not assume the reader's previous acquaintance with Quine's writings. Throughout, it is marked by Quine's wit and economy of style.
Author |
: Willard Van Orman Quine |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D00148004C |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4C Downloads) |
Synopsis The Web of Belief by : Willard Van Orman Quine
The Web of Belief provides a philosophical base for the study and practice of the art of argumentation. Stressing the importance of language in understanding and expressing ideas, the authors explore such questions as: What concepts do we believe to be true and why? And how can we convince others to accept our own beliefs? Drawing on everyday problems of communication, creative exercises give the student practice in formulating and testing his own arguments, as well as those of others. --
Author |
: W. V. QUINE |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674042445 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674042441 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy of Logic, 2nd Edition by : W. V. QUINE
With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar--but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible extensions of logic, Quine argues that logic is not a mere matter of words.
Author |
: Martin Heidegger |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791426777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791426777 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being and Time by : Martin Heidegger
A new, definitive translation of Heidegger's most important work.
Author |
: James R. Hurford |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1983-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521289491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521289498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semantics by : James R. Hurford
Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.