Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Quine as philosopher and anti-philosopher......Page 12
Empiricism and the claims of science......Page 14
Logical empiricism......Page 16
Linguistic frameworks, analyticity and tolerance......Page 19
\'Truth by Convention\': preliminaries......Page 24
\'Truth by Convention\': Quine\'s objections......Page 27
The first dogma of \'Two Dogmas\': analyticity......Page 30
The second dogma: reductionism......Page 34
Further points on definition, postulation and the limits of syntax......Page 40
From criticism to construction......Page 46
Approaching the natives......Page 49
Stimulus meaning and observation sentences......Page 51
Synonymy and analyticity considered anew......Page 57
Analytical hypotheses......Page 58
Indeterminacy of translation......Page 63
Reflecting on indeterminacy......Page 67
Reciprocal containment......Page 79
Evidence and the connection of language to the world......Page 84
Focusing on the individual......Page 87
The psychology of learning......Page 90
Language: observation sentences to theory......Page 96
Reference......Page 99
The ontological question......Page 106
The actuary of science......Page 110
\'To be is to be the value of a bound variable\'......Page 116
Posits, reality and reduction......Page 121
Ontological relativity......Page 126
Truth......Page 130
Causality and dispositions......Page 139
\'No entity without identity\': abstract objects, good and bad......Page 143
Propositional attitudes......Page 148
Modality......Page 156
The rejection of first philosophy......Page 162
Quine and analytic philosophy......Page 166
Lingering questions......Page 175
Bibliography......Page 185
E......Page 188
P......Page 189
W......Page 190