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Enlightened Empiricism : An Examination of W.V. Quine's Theory of Knowledge
author
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Gibson, Roger F.
publisher
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University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin
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0813008867
print isbn13
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9780813008868
ebook isbn13
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9780813019581
language
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English
subject
Quine, W. V.--(Willard Van Orman)--Contributions in theory of knowledge, Knowledge, Theory of--History--20th century.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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B945.Q54G49 1988eb
ddc
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121/.092/4
subject
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Quine, W. V.--(Willard Van Orman)--Contributions in theory of knowledge, Knowledge, Theory of--History--20th century.
Page i
Enlightened Empiricism
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A far cry, this, from old epistemology. Yet it is no gratuitous change of subject matter, but an enlightened persistence rather in the original epistemological problem. It is enlightened in recognizing that the skeptical challenge springs from science itself, and that in coping with it we are free to use scientific knowledge. The old epistemologist failed to recognize the strength of his position. W. V. Quine, The Roots of Reference
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Enlightened Empiricism
An Examination of W. V. Quine's Theory of Knowledge
Roger F. Gibson, Jr.
UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF FLORIDA University of South Florida Press / Tampa
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gibson, Roger F., Jr. Enlightened empiricism. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)Contributions in theory of knowledge. 2. Knowledge, Theory of History20th century. I. Title. B945.Q54G49 1988 121.0924 87-21585 ISBN 0-8130-0886-7 (alk. paper)
University Presses of Florida is the central agency for scholarly publishing of the State of Florida's university system. Its offices are located at 15 NW 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32603. Works published by University Presses of Florida are evaluated and selected for publication by a faculty editorial committee at any one of Florida's nine public universities: Florida A&M University (Tallahassee), Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton), Florida International University (Miami), Florida State University (Tallahassee), University of Central Florida (Orlando), University of Florida (Gainesville), University of North Florida (Jacksonville), University of South Florida (Tampa), University of West Florida (Pensacola).
A list of publishers who have granted permission to reproduce copyrighted material in this volume appears on page 192.
Copyright 1988 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in U.S.A. on acid-free paper
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To Sharon, Pyewacket, and Widget
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Contents
Foreword
Dagfinn Fllesdal
ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
Preface
xv
Introduction
xvii
1. Quine's Philosophy: A Systematic Overview
1
2. Holism, Realism, and Naturalized Epistemology
23
3. Naturalized Epistomology Reconsidered
53
4. Analyticity Reconsidered
85
5. Indeterminacy, Underdetermination, and Facts of the Matter
102
6. Ontological Relativity
132
7. Quine on Ethics
155
Afterword
177
Notes
179
References
181
Index
187
Page ix
Foreword
by Dagfinn Fllesdal
As lucid and lively a writer as Quine might seem to need no expositors. And yet the many failures by critics to grasp what he is up to cry out for presentations that adopt new perspectives and emphasize points that get overlooked. Roger Gibson's The Philosophy of W. V. Quine did this admirably, and the present volume succeeds even better at closing in upon the core of Quine's thought.
This core is Quine's naturalism: philosophy is natural science trained upon itself; there is no first philosophy, no external vantage point. In particular, this holds for epistemology: epistomology is contained in natural science, as a chapter of empirical psychology, and yet it is epistemology that provides an account of the evidential bases of natural science, including empirical psychology itself. As Gibson expresses it (using "ontology" for "natural science"): epistemology and ontology contain one another.
This governing idea of Gibson's book helps to provide a proper understanding of many other intricate and often misunderstood points in Quinenotably, the difference between the indeterminacy of translation and the underdetermination of our theory of nature, ontological relativity, and Quine's special kind of realism.
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