Verhaegh Sander (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tilburg Center For Logic Ethics And Philosophy Of Science (Tilps) At Tilburg University Netherlands) - Working From Within The Nature And Development Of Quine's Naturalism - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: During the past few decades a radical shift has occurred in how philosophers conceive of the relation between science and philosophy. A great number of analytic philosophers have adopted what is commonly called a "naturalistic" approach arguing that their inquiries ought to be in some sense continuous with science. Where early analytic philosophers often relied on a sharp distinction between science and philosophy - - the former an empirical discipline concerned with fact the latter an a priori discipline concerned with meaning - - philosophers today largely follow Willard Van Orman Quine (1908 - 2000) in his seminal rejection of this distinction. Sander Verhaegh here offers a comprehensive study of Quine's groundbreaking naturalism. Building on Quine's published corpus as well as a wealth of unpublished letters notes lectures papers proposals and annotations from the Quine archives Verhaegh aims to reconstruct both the nature and the development of his naturalism. As such Working from Within aims to contribute to the rapidly developing historiography of analytic philosophy and to provide a better historically informed understanding of what is philosophically at stake in the contemporary naturalistic turn. Transcriptions of five unpublished papers letters and notes are included in the appendix.
Title: Working From Within The Nature And Development Of Quine's Naturalism
Author(s): Verhaegh Sander (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tilburg Center For Logic Ethics And Philosophy Of Science (Tilps) At Tilburg University Netherlands)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190913151
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 12/5/2018
Category: Philosophy Of Science