Quine On Ethics

Author : Necip Fikri Alican
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527568105

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Quine on Ethics by Necip Fikri Alican Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Quine’s brief yet memorable foray into ethics. It defends Quine against his most formidable critics, corrects misconceptions in the reception of his outlook on ethics as a philosophical enterprise and morality as a social institution, and restores emphasis on observationality as the impetus behind his momentous intervention in metaethics. The central focus is on Quine’s infamous challenge to ethical theory: his thesis of the methodological infirmity of ethics as compared with science. The book ultimately demonstrates that the challenge is not only valid but also valuable in its identification of opportunities for reformation in ethical reasoning and moral justification.

Author : Dagfinn Føllesdal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815337418

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Philosophy of Quine: Ontology by Dagfinn Føllesdal Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine,J. S. Ullian
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MINN:31951D00148004C

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The Web of Belief by Willard Van Orman Quine,J. S. Ullian Pdf

The Web of Belief provides a philosophical base for the study and practice of the art of argumentation. Stressing the importance of language in understanding and expressing ideas, the authors explore such questions as: What concepts do we believe to be true and why? And how can we convince others to accept our own beliefs? Drawing on everyday problems of communication, creative exercises give the student practice in formulating and testing his own arguments, as well as those of others. --

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317494324

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Central Works of Philosophy v5 by John Shand Pdf

Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. This volume covers the central texts in the history of analytic philosophy from Quine's Word and Object (1960) to the present day. The texts range over political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophies of language, mind and logic and represent some of the most important philosophical work of the last forty years. Students and non-specialists who may find the technicality of some of the texts forbidding will welcome the clarity of exposition and exegesis that the essays provide. Taken together the essays provide both a map and compass for the current philosophical landscape and will prove a valuable resource not only for undergraduate and postgraduate philosophy students but for teachers and researchers in allied disciplines who need an understanding of the preoccupations of contemporary philosophy.

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0674879260

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Theories and Things by Willard Van Orman Quine Pdf

Here are the most recent writings, some of them unpublished, of the preeminent philosopher of our time. Quine is always, whatever his subject, an elegant writer, witty, precise, and forceful. Admirers of his earlier books will welcome this new volume.

Author : Dagfinn Føllesdal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 081533740X

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Philosophy of Quine: Indeterminacy of translation by Dagfinn Føllesdal Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dagfinn Follesdal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 081533737X

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Naturalism and Ethics by Dagfinn Follesdal Pdf

Author : Dagfinn Føllesdal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815337388

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Philosophy of Quine: General, reviews, and analytic by Dagfinn Føllesdal Pdf

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Author : Hilary PUTNAM,Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042391

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Ethics without Ontology by Hilary PUTNAM,Hilary Putnam Pdf

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's influence on analytic philosophy--in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments--Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology.

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Library of Living Philosophers
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040420791

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The Philosophy of W.V. Quine by Willard Van Orman Quine Pdf

This volume on Quine includes 25 critical essays by contemporary philosophers such as William P.Alston, Ulrich Gahde, Geoffrey Hellman, Hao Wang and Charles Parsons and Quine's answers to these critics. The text also includes a bibliography of Quine's works and discusses his views on the philosophy of logic, methodology, logical theory, theory of language, ontology and epistemology and a biographical essay.

Author : Roger F. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521639492

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The Cambridge Companion to Quine by Roger F. Gibson Pdf

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Author : A.I. Goldman,Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401576345

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Values and Morals by A.I. Goldman,Jaegwon Kim Pdf

This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K. Frankena, Charles L. Stevenson, and Richard B. Brandt. Each has made significant con tributions to the philosophic literature, particularly in the field of ethics. Michigan has been fortunate in having three such original and productive moral philosophers serving ob its faculty simultaneously. Yet they stand in a long tradition of excellence, both within the Department and in the University. Let us trace that tradition briefly. The University of Michigan opened in 184l.lts Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts at first resembled a typical American college ofthat period, with religious and ethical indoctrination playing a central role in course offerings. But when Henry Tappan, a Presbyterian clergyman and Professor of philosophy, became President in 1852, he succeeded in shifting the emphasis from indoctrination to inquiry and scholarship. Though he was dismissed for his policies in 1863, Tappan's efforts to establish a broad and liberal curriculum prevailed. Michigan was to take its place among the leading educational institutions in this country, and to achieve an international reputation as a research center. Several past philosophers are worthy of mention here. George Sylvester Morris, an absolute idealist, joined the Department in 1881, having served from 1870 as Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literature. He assumed the Chairmanship of Philosophy in 1884.

Author : Margaret Urban Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742513793

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Moral Contexts by Margaret Urban Walker Pdf

To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : W. V. QUINE,W. V Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042445

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Philosophy of Logic, 2nd Edition by W. V. QUINE,W. V Quine Pdf

With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar--but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible extensions of logic, Quine argues that logic is not a mere matter of words.

Author : Corbin Fowler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004493384

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Morality for Moderns by Corbin Fowler Pdf

This book defends morality against the critiques of egoims, subjectivism, and relativism. It argues that we can and should construe some moral standards as objective and that justice and self-development are the cornerstones of healthy morality. Opening with a dialogue meant to tease and provoke the reader, the book's subsequent chapters treat misconceptions about morality, the possibility of unselfish action, the nature of free will and moral responsibility, and the identity of moral right and wrong.