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.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0195145062
9780195145069
9780199833436
0199833435