This book re-examines the place of Carnap and Quine in the history of analytic philosophy by presenting them as sharing philosophical motivations despite their notable differences. It will be accessible to professional philosophers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.
Rudolf Carnap (18911970) and W. V. O Quine (19082000) have long been seen as key figures of analytic philosophy who are opposed to each other, due in no small part to their famed debate over the analytic/synthetic distinction. This volume of new essays assembles for the first time a number of scholars of the history of analytic philosophy who see Carnap and Quine as figures largely sympathetic to each other in their philosophical views. The essays acknowledge the differences which exist, but through their emphasis on Carnap and Quine's shared assumption about how philosophy should be done-that philosophy should be complementary to and continuous with the natural and mathematical sciences-our understanding of how they diverge is also deepened. This volume reshapes our understanding not only of Carnap and Quine, but of the history of analytic philosophy generally.
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This book reassesses Carnap and Quine by presenting them as sharing philosophical motivations despite their notable differences.
Part I. Carnap, Quine, and Logical Empiricism:
1. Carnap and Quine:
first encounters (19331936) Sander Verhaegh;
2. On Quine's guess about
Neurath's influence on Carnap's Aufbau Thomas Uebel;
3. Frameworks,
paradigms, and conceptual schemes: blurring the boundaries between realism
and anti-realism Sean Morris; Part II. Carnap, Quine, and American
Pragmatism:
4. Pragmatism in Carnap and Quine: affinity or disparity? Yemima
Ben-Menahem;
5. Objectivity socialized James Pearson;
6. Whose dogmas of
empiricism? Lydia Patton; Part III. Carnap and Quine on Logic, Language, and
Translation:
7. Reading Quine's claim that Carnap's term 'Semantical Rule' is
meaningless Gary Ebbs;
8. What does translation translate? Quine, Carnap, and
the emergence of indeterminacy Paul A. Roth;
9. Quine and Wittgenstein on the
indeterminacy of translation Andrew Lugg;
10. Turning point: Quine's
indeterminacy of translation at middle age Richard Creath; Part IV. Carnap
and Quine on Ontology and Metaphysics:
11. Carnap and Quine on ontology and
categories Roberta Ballarin;
12. Carnap and Quine on the status of ontology:
the role of the principle of tolerance Peter Hylton;
13. Carnap, Quine, and
Williamson: Metaphysics, semantics, and science Gary Kemp; Bibliography;
Index.
Sean Morris is Professor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His previous publications include Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set Theory (Cambridge 2018).
