Quine

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Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow

Abbreviations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Philosophy as Quine found it	p. 1
Quine as philosopher and anti-philosopher	p. 1
Empiricism and the claims of science	p. 3
Logical empiricism	p. 5
Linguistic frameworks, analyticity and tolerance	p. 8
Convention, analyticity and holism	p. 13
'Truth by Convention': preliminaries	p. 13
'Truth by Convention': Quine's objections	p. 16
The first dogma of 'Two Dogmas': analyticity	p. 19
The second dogma: reductionism	p. 23
Further points on definition, postulation and the limits of syntax	p. 29
The indeterminacy of translation	p. 35
From criticism to construction	p. 35
Approaching the natives	p. 38
Stimulus meaning and observation sentences	p. 40
Synonymy and analyticity considered anew	p. 46
Analytical hypotheses	p. 47
Indeterminacy of translation	p. 52
Reflecting on indeterminacy	p. 56
Naturalized epistemology and the roots of reference	p. 68
Reciprocal containment	p. 68
Evidence and the connection of language to the world	p. 73
Focusing on the individual	p. 76
The psychology of learning	p. 79
Language: observation sentences to theory	p. 85
Reference	p. 88
Truth, ontology and the language of science	p. 95
The ontological question	p. 95
The actuary of science	p. 99
'To be is to be the value of a bound variable'	p. 105
Posits, reality and reduction	p. 110
Ontological relativity	p. 115
Truth	p. 119
Extenionality and abstract ontology	p. 128
Causality and dispositions	p. 128
'No entity without identity': abstract objects, good and bad	p. 132
Propositional attitudes	p. 137
Modality	p. 145
Science, philosophy and common sense	p. 151
The rejection of first philosophy	p. 151
Quine and analytic philosophy	p. 155
Lingering questions	p. 164
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 177
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