Radical interpretation and indeterminacy.

Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	McCarthy, Timothy, 1951-
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:	Oxford scholarship online. Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:	Language and languages > Philosophy. Langage et langues > Philosophie. Language and languages > Philosophy Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book