Quine versus Davidson : Truth, Reference, and Meaning /
Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson are usually regarded as bir...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
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2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson are usually regarded as birds of a feather. The two disagreed in print on various matters over the years, but fundamentally they seem to be in agreement; most strikingly, Davidson's thought experiment of Radical Interpretation looks to be a more sophisticated, technically polished version of Quinean Radical Translation. Yet Q. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
| Bibliography: | ReferencesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W. |
| ISBN: | 9780191629211 0191629219 1280594411 9781280594410 9780191738524 0191738522 |