Analyticity /

Main Author: Juhl, Cory.
Other Authors: Loomis, Eric.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:New problems of philosophy series
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Table of Contents:
  • Conceptions of analytic truth
  • Hume's fork
  • Kant and the analytic-synthetic distinction
  • Synthetic a priori propositions
  • Bolzano and analyticity
  • Analyticity in Frege
  • Russell's paradox and the theory of descriptions
  • The Vienna circle
  • Carnap and logical empiricism
  • Carnap and Quine
  • Demise of the aufbau
  • Philosophy as logical syntax
  • Logical and descriptive languages
  • Physical languages
  • Analyticity in syntax
  • Carnap's move to semantics
  • Explications
  • Analyticity in a semantic setting
  • Eliminating metaphysics : Carnap's final try
  • W.V. Quine : explication is elimination
  • Behaviorists ex officio
  • Analyticity in the crosshairs
  • Analyticity and its discontents
  • Questioning analyticity
  • Quine's two dogmas of empiricism
  • Objections to the intelligibility of analytic
  • Quine's coherence arguments : Carnap's reply
  • Other responses to the coherence objection : Grice and Strawson on Quine
  • A second dogma of empiricism
  • Responses to the existence objections to analyticity
  • Analyticity by convention
  • Quine's developed attitude toward analyticity
  • Analyticity and ontology
  • Quine's naturalized ontology
  • The indeterminacy of translation
  • Some consequences of the indeterminacy arguments : ontological relativity and analyticity
  • Responses to Quine's indeterminacy arguments
  • Carnap's empiricism, semantics, and ontology
  • Some Quinean and other responses to empiricism, semantics, and ontology
  • Some recent connections between conceptual truths and ontology
  • Quine's criterion of ontological commitment, causality, and exists
  • Eli Hirsch and Ted Sider on mereological principles
  • The Canberra Project : a resurrection of Carnap's aufbau
  • Analyticity and epistemology
  • Analytic truths and their role in epistemology : the classical position
  • Objecting to the classical position
  • Bonjour on moderate empiricism
  • Quine's epistemology naturalized
  • Quine and evidence : responses to circularity
  • Kripke on apriority, analyticity, and necessity
  • Analyticity repositioned
  • The best cases : stipulations and mathematics
  • One type of statement that might be reasonably called analytic
  • Aside on two dimensionalism
  • Analyticity and T-analyticity
  • How analyticity avoids many common objections to analyticity
  • Some brief comments on two other approaches to analyticity
  • Mathematical claims as T-analytic
  • A further potential application : pure and impure stipulata.