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Radical interpretation and indeterminacy

Title
Radical interpretation and indeterminacy / Timothy McCarthy.
Author
McCarthy, Timothy, 1951-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description
xiv, 253 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"In this work McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterizing from scratch the language and attitudes of an agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interpretation first described by W.V. Quine." "The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpretive principles, properly applied, can serve to constrain the semantic description of the language and attitudes of an idealized agent or population in such a way as to resolve the major indeterminacies of interpretation. McCarthy's work represents solutions to long-standing problems in the philosophical literature."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Lewis, David K. Philosoph
  • Putnam, Hilary
  • Kripke, Saul A
  • Quine, Willard van Orman
  • Davidson, Donald Philosoph
  • Language and languages > Philosophy
  • Semantik
  • Vagheit
  • Sprachverstehen
  • Referenz Linguistik
  • Sprachphilosophie
  • Sprachlogik
  • Interpretatie
  • Analytische filosofie
  • Referentie
  • Logica
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Prospect. 1.2. Some Recent History. 1.3. Conformal Interpretation. 1.4. Logic and Radical Interpretation. 1.5. The Limits of Determinacy. 1.6. Credo -- Ch. 2. Radical interpretation. 2.1. The Problem. 2.2. The Minimal Framework. 2.3. Isomorphism and Indeterminacy. 2.4. Conformal Explanation and Semantic Content. 2.5. Conformal Interpretation. 2.6. Conclusion -- Ch. 3. The Roots of Reference. 3.1. Naming and Conformality. 3.2. Observation Terms. 3.3. Homogeneous Natural Kind Terms. 3.4. Grounding the Model. 3.5. Reference to Inhomogeneous Kinds -- Ch. 4. The Ground of Logic. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Framework 1. 4.3. Invariance 1. 4.4. Completeness and Determinacy.
ISBN
  • 0195145062
  • 9780195145069
LCCN
2002009848
OCLC
  • ocm50091953
  • 50091953
  • SCSB-1269254
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library