Pursuit of Truth : Revised Edition （2ND）

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Pursuit of Truth : Revised Edition （2ND）

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 128 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780674739512
  • DDC分類 121

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1990. This is a key book for understanding the effort that a major philosopher made a large part of his life's work: to naturalize epistemology in the twentieth century.

Full Description

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.

Contents

PART 1: EVIDENCE 1. Stimulation and prediction 2. Observation sentences 3. Theory-laden? 4. Observation categoricals 5. Test and refutation 6. Holism 7. Empirical content 8. Norms and aims PART 2: REFERENCE 9. Bodies 10. Values of variables 11. Utility of reification 12. Indifference of ontology 13. Ontology defused PART 3: MEANING 14. The field linguist's entering wedge 15. Stimulation again 16. To each his own 17. Translation resumed 18. Indeterminacy of translation 19. Syntax 20. Indeterminacy of reference 21. Whither meanings? 22. Domestic meaning 23. Lexicography PART 4: INTENSION 24. Perception and observation sentences 25. Perception extended 26. Perception of things 27. Belief and perception 28. Propositional attitudes 29. Anomalous monism 30. Modalities 31. A mentalistic heritage PART 5: TRUTH 32. Vehicles of truth 33. Truth as disquotation 34. Paradox 35. Tarski's construction 36. Paradox skirted 37. Interlocked hierarchies 38. Excluded middle 39. Truth versus warranted belief 40. Truth in mathematics 41. Equivalent theories 42. Irresoluble rivalry 43. Two indeterminacies References Credits Index