- Peter Hylton Quine, Routledge, Arguments of the Philosophers Series, 2007
Beginning with an overview of Quine's philosophical background in logic and mathematics and the role of Rudolf Carnap's influence on Quine's thought, he goes on to discuss Quine's famous analytic-synthetic distinction and his arguments concerning the nature of the a priori. He also discusses Quine's philosophy of language and epistemology, his celebrated theory of the indeterminacy of translation and his broader views of ontology and modality.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Quine’s Philosophical Background: Beginnings; Logic; Carnap
3. The Analytic-synthetic Distinction
4. Re-conceiving Epistemology
5. The Beginnings of Cognitive Language: Shared Responses to Stimulation and Observation Sentences
6. Beyond the Observation Sentences
7. Theory and Evidence
8. Radical Translation and its Indeterminacy
9. Quinean Metaphysics: Limning the Structure of Reality
10. A Framework for Theory: the Role of Logic
11. Extensionality, Reference, and Singular Terms
12. Ontology, Physicalism, Realism
13. Minds, Beliefs, and Modality
Conclusion
この本のことをすっかり忘れていた。たぶんだけれど、この本はQuineのまったくの初心者向けに書かれたのではなく、少しQuineをかじった人向けに書かれているのではないかと推測される。そのようなわけで入門書でありながら読みごたえがありそうな予感がするので、おそらく購入するのではないかと思う。
