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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 3,0, Universität Mannheim, Veranstaltung: Quine, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Menschen auf der ganzen Welt kommunizieren miteinander in allen erdenklichen Sprachen. Jeder von uns besitzt mehrere Wörterbücher, lernt in der Schule Fremdsprachen und belegt Sprachkurse für den Urlaub. Es gibt Sprachforscher, Fremdsprachenkorrespondenten, Dolmetscher und Wörterbuchautoren, die ihren Beruf Übersetzungen und der Verschiedenheit und Vielseitigkeit der Sprachen verdanken. Ohne die Übertragung von Inhalten aus einer Sprache in eine andere Sprache, sprich Übersetzungen, wäre jedes Land abgeschirmt. Es gäbe keinen globalen Handel und fast keine Migrationsbewegungen, weil sich niemand in fremden Ländern verständigen könnte. Übersetzungen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Lebens eines jeden von uns. Aber wo haben sie ihren Ursprung Quine kritisiert in seinem Aufsatz 'word and object' die Annahme, dass Sprache in der Struktur schon vorhanden ist. Er sieht die Existenz einer Blackbox als sehr zweifelhaft an.Als Bedeutungsskeptiker ist der Begriff der Bedeutung für ihn unklar, genauso wie die Sprache. Es gibt zu jeder noch so brillianten Übersetzung mehrere Alternativen, die sich sogar oft gegenseitig ausschließen oder nichts miteinander gemeinsam haben.Deswegen arbeitet er in seinem Aufsatz nicht mit Begriffen, um andere Begriffe zu erklären, sondern mit einem Gedankenexperiment, dem 'Gavagai-Experiment', um das es in meiner Hausarbeit geht. Es soll zeigen, dass es nicht gelingen kann, einer vollkommen fremden Sprache eine eindeutige Bedeutung zuzuteilen. Im Folgenden will ich die Schritte, die zu Quines These der Unbestimmtheit der Urübersetzung führen, erläutern.

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kart. Zustand: Gut. 400 S. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, Buchrücken leicht ausgebleicht, sonst gutes Exemplar, Text sauber. --- INHALT: Vorwort - - EVA PICARDI - - Alfred North Whitehead / Bertrand Russell: Principia Mathematica (1910-13). - AGUIRRE - - Edmund Husserl: Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomeno- logie und phänomenologischen Philosophie (1913). - - JOACHIM SCHULTE - - Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus (1921) und Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953). - - CHRISTOPH JAMME - - Martin Heidegger: Sein und Zeit (1927) - - JOACHIM SCHULTE - - Rudolf Carnap: Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928). - - OTTO PÖGGELER - - Max Scheler: Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos (1928) - - ANDREAS CESANA - - Karl Jaspers: Philosophie (1932) - - GUNNAR ANDERSSON - - Karl Popper: Logik der Forschung (1934) - - KLAUS HARTMANN - - Jean-Paul Sartre: Das Sein und das Nichts (L'être et le néant, 1943) - - PETER CHRISTIAN LANG - - Hans-Georg Gadamer: Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik (1960) - - EVA PICARDI - - Willard Van Orman Quine: Wort und Gegenstand (Word and Object, 1960) - - PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE - - Thomas S. Kuhn: Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962) - - DIETER BIRNBACHER - - Theodor W. Adorno: Negative Dialektik (1966) - - EVELYN GRÖBL-STEINBACH - - Jürgen Habermas: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (1981). ISBN 9783150087442 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 174.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Note: sehr gut, Universität Zürich, Veranstaltung: Seminar: Die Philosophie Quines, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Willard Van Orman Quine gilt als einer der einflussreichsten und am meisten diskutierten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Unter seinen zahlreichen Veroffentlichungen nimmt sein 1960 erschienenes Buch Word and Object einen besonders kontroversen Stellenwert ein. Vor allem das darin enthaltene Gedankenexperiment der «radical translation» hat weit über das eigentliche Feld der analytischen Philosophie hinaus Berühmtheit erlangt. Dieses berühmt-berüchtigte Gedankenexperiment stellt den Ausganspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit dar. In einem ersten Schritt werden, ausgehend von der 'Dschungelszene', in der Quines «radical translation» passiert, die für seine Argumentation zentralen Begriffe erarbeitet. In einem weiteren Schritt wird das Argument, das zu Quines These der «indeterminacy of translation» führt, rekonstruiert. Im Folgenden sollen die darin enthaltenen Pramissen zu Quines behaviouristischer Konzeption von Sprache auf den Erstspracherwerb übertragen werden. Die Idee dahinter ist, dass es eine strukturelle Ahnlichkeit zwischen der «radical translation» und dem Erstspracherwerb gibt. Dabei steht eine Frage im Zentrum: Wenn sprachlernende Kinder mit denselben Problemen konfrontiert sind, wie urübersetzende Feldlinguisten, wie ist es dann zu erklaren, dass der Erstspracherwerb in den meisten Fallen so verblüffend gut funktioniert Diese Frage ist der Anknüpfungspunkt zweier nativistischer Einwande gegen Quines Spracherwerbstheorie, auf die ich im weiteren Verlauf der Arbeit den Fokus richten werde. Es sind die 'Unzulanglichkeit des Stimulus' und die 'Ambiguitat ostensiver Definition'. Zum Abschluss werde ich die Kritik an Quine, die bei diesen beiden Einwanden ansetzt, zumindest teilweise zurückzuweisen versuchen.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to Quine's Word and Object, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers, each of them primary texts studied at undergraduate level. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance then and now. Each essay equips the reader with the resources and confidence to go on to read the works themselves. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpleces of the western philosophical canon and some of the greatest minds that have ever lived talking about the profoundest most exciting problems there are. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a brilliant outpouring of philosophical thought unprecedented in human history. Together philosophy and science pushed medieval and Renaissance scholasticism aside to lay the foundations of the modern world. Beginning with Descartes' Meditations, the contributors examine some of the period's most seminal philosophical texts: Spinoza's Ethics, which presents a complete picture of reality that has at its heart how we can be good, the Monadology, in which Leibniz describes what must underpin reality if it is to be fully explained, Hobbes' Leviathan, which reminds us of the dangers of the unchecked brutality of humanity; Rousseau's Social Contract, a vision of how human nature can be changed for the better in a new society, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding which wishes us to grasp that we must make knowledge our own through experience not authority, Berkeley's attack on materialism in his Treatise and Hume's search for rational justification for our most basic beliefs about the world in his Treatise of Human Nature. Together these essays offer students a remarkable survey of the key texts and core ideas that make up the age of rationalism and empiricism. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - W.V. Quine is one of the leading figures of 20th century analytic philosophy, and still among the most influential. But his work can be challenging and complex, and indeed often misunderstood. In this updated introduction to Quine's thought, Gary Kemp examines his seemingly disparate views as a unified whole and offers a valuable guide for anyone approaching Quine for the first time.Informed by current debates and updated throughout, this edition now includes: Thoroughly revised and expanded text More references to commentaries, secondary literature and works by Quine Suggestions for further reading Newly introduced material on Empirical Content, Explication, Nominalism, The Purported Third Dogma, Theoreticity, Natural Selection and Linguistics. Historical notes on Quine's relation to his predecessors and contemporariesPaying close attention to Quine's seminal works including Word and Object and Philosophy of Logic, Kemp explains how his philosophy relates to thinkers including Rudolf Carnap and Wittgenstein, as well as to more recent figures such as Donald Davidson and Noam Chomsky. Kemp clearly and accurately emphasizes the systematic nature of Quine's thought as one of naturalism. He advances our understanding of Quine and attests to his ongoing influence in philosophy of science, logic, language, ontology and epistemology. This unique introduction to Quine's philosophy is recommended for any student interested in Quine and the history of analytic philosophy.

Okart. XV, 294 S. Mit Bibliographie, Personen- u. Sachregister. (Gut).

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(N.Y., Wiley & Sons), 1960). 8vo. Orig. olive green full cloth w. gilt and black lettering and blindstamped seal to front board, and in orig. d.-j. Binding w. a bit of sunning and soiling to spine, and minor bumping to capitals and corners, otherwise nice and clean. With the rare original dust-jacket, in excellent condition, w. a tear to upper front hinge, no loss, and a few other small nicks and tears w. almost no loss. Some underlinings and marginalia in pencil. XV, (1), 294 pp. First edition, presentation-copy, of Quine's main work, in which he introduces the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis. This is the most philosophical of all of Quine's works, and it has greatly affected the development of logic, philosophy of language and mathematics, and analytic philosophy in general.The presentation-inscription to front free end-paper reads as thus: "To Rod Firth/ with best regards./ Van". Roderick Firth was Quine's colleague as professor of philosophy at Harvard. He was chairman of the philosophy department at Harvard from 1957 until 1963. He earned a doctorate at Harvard in 1943, joined the faculty in 1953 and became Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in 1962.It is in his "Word and Object" that Quine propounds his "indeterminacy of translation"-thesis, which became central in the development of philosophy of language. "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend on intersubjectively available cues such as to what to say and when. Hence there is no justification for collating linguistic meanings, unless in terms of men's dispositions to respond overtly to socially observable stimulations." (Preface p. IX).Quine bases his main thesis on his consideration of the linguist, who attempts to translate a hitherto unknown language. There are different methods that the linguist could apply as to the breaking down of sentences and distribution of function among the words. Quine reaches the conclusion that if any hypothesis of translation needs to be defended, this can only be by appeal to context, by determining what other sentences the language user would utter in the language that is unknown to the linguist. But even here the indeterminacy of translation sets in, because, according to Quine, any hypothesis can be defended, if only enough other hypotheses of other parts of the language are adopted. This indeterminacy of language also applies to the known languages, and even one's own, and thus Quine implies that there are no such entities as "meanings" of right and wrong. Quine thus denies any absolute standards in translating one language into another, but he admits that there are good and bad translation, -this is just not philosophically or logically relevant. Translation can be inconsistent with behavioral evidence, however and thus Quine propounds his pragmatic view of translation. "Neurath has likened science to a boat, which, if we are to rebuild it, we must rebuild plank by plank while staying afloat in it. The philosopher and the scientist are in the same boat. If we improve our understanding of ordinary talk of physical things, it will not be by reducing that talk to a more familiar idiom" there is none. It will be by clarifying the connections, causal or otherwise, between ordinary talk of physical things and various further matters which in turn we grasp with the help of ordinary talk of physical things." (P. 3 - § 9).

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - W. V. Quine (1908-2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others. Quine is also famous for the view that epistemology should be naturalized, that is conducted in a scientific spirit with the object of investigating the relationship between the inputs of experience and the outputs of belief. The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of Quine's philosophy: the underdetermination of physical theory, analycity, naturalism, propositional attitudes, behaviorism, reference and ontology, positivism, holism and logic.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Este libro es un verdadero clásico,tanto en el contenido como en su formulación. El estilo de Quine, expresivo y elegantemente preciso a veces irónico, es singular en la literatura de la filosofía analítica, pero Palabra y objeto no es un libro fácil: para abordarlo es recomendable un cierto entrenamiento en filosofía, lógica y lingüística, así como en el positivismo lógico contra el que Quine reaccionaba. Como contrapartida de su dificultad, este libro contiene el famoso capítulo segundo (la tesis sobre la indeterminación de las traducciones y la noción de traducción radical), una fascinante reformulación lingüística del problema de las 'otras mentes' que puede parecer un tópico pero que lleva a Quine a tratar un gran número de cuestiones epistemológicas, lógicas y metafísicas. Las conclusiones de Quine en estas áreas fueron tan insólitas y profundas que todavía hoy (más de cuatro décadas después de la primera edición de Word and Object) son objeto de estudio de la filosofía. ¿Estaba Quine en lo cierto Seguramente, no, pero, como todos los grandes filósofos, aportó una nueva visión sobre temas viejos, y nos abrió los ojos a problemas cuya existencia desconocíamos. Palabra y objeto, junto con Philosophical Investigations, de Wittgenstein, The concept of Mind, de Ryle, y Empiricism of Mind, de Sellas, completan una tetralogía de la filosofía analítica de la segunda mitad del siglo xx.Willard van Orman Quine (Akron, Ohio, 1908 - Boston, Massachusetts, 2000), filósofo de la lógica, inició sus estudios de matemáticas en el Oberlin College, en la Universidad de Harvard y en Praga, con Rudolf Carnap. Aunque empezó su carrera dedicándose a los aspectos técnicos de la lógica como base de la filosofía, su ulterior trabajo se centró en temas filosóficos más generales en el marco de la lingüística sistemática. En 1932 fue Magister Artium y se doctoró en filosofía en Harvard. Lector, profesor y titular de la Cátedra Edgar Pierce de Filosofía, también en Harvard, desde 1936 hasta 1978. Presidente de la American Philosophical Association en 1951 y de la Association for Symbolic Logic de 1953 a 1955.Su producción literaria en la segunda mitad del siglo xx fue decisiva en las áreas de la Lógica matemática, la Filosofía del lenguaje y la Filosofía de la lógica. Sus obras más importantes fueron The Ways of Paradox, Mathematical Logic, Set Theory and Its Logic, Quiddities y, probablemente la más importante, Palabra y Objeto.Murió el 25 de diciembre de 2000.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of W.V. Quine's philosophy. Quine (1908-2000) was perhaps the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - W.V. Quine is one of the leading figures of 20th century analytic philosophy, and still among the most influential. But his work can be challenging and complex, and indeed often misunderstood. In this updated introduction to Quine's thought, Gary Kemp examines his seemingly disparate views as a unified whole and offers a valuable guide for anyone approaching Quine for the first time.Informed by current debates and updated throughout, this edition now includes: Thoroughly revised and expanded text More references to commentaries, secondary literature and works by Quine Suggestions for further reading Newly introduced material on Empirical Content, Explication, Nominalism, The Purported Third Dogma, Theoreticity, Natural Selection and Linguistics. Historical notes on Quine's relation to his predecessors and contemporariesPaying close attention to Quine's seminal works including Word and Object and Philosophy of Logic, Kemp explains how his philosophy relates to thinkers including Rudolf Carnap and Wittgenstein, as well as to more recent figures such as Donald Davidson and Noam Chomsky. Kemp clearly and accurately emphasizes the systematic nature of Quine's thought as one of naturalism. He advances our understanding of Quine and attests to his ongoing influence in philosophy of science, logic, language, ontology and epistemology. This unique introduction to Quine's philosophy is recommended for any student interested in Quine and the history of analytic philosophy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 386 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The modern discussion on the concept of truthlikeness was started in 1960. In his influential Word and Object, W. V. O. Quine argued that Charles Peirce's definition of truth as the limit of inquiry is faulty for the reason that the notion 'nearer than' is only 'defined for numbers and not for theories'. In his contribution to the 1960 International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science at Stan ford, Karl Popper defended the opposite view by defining a compara tive notion of verisimilitude for theories. was originally introduced by the The concept of verisimilitude Ancient sceptics to moderate their radical thesis of the inaccessibility of truth. But soon verisimilitudo, indicating likeness to the truth, was confused with probabilitas, which expresses an opiniotative attitude weaker than full certainty. The idea of truthlikeness fell in disrepute also as a result of the careless, often confused and metaphysically loaded way in which many philosophers used - and still use - such concepts as 'degree of truth', 'approximate truth', 'partial truth', and 'approach to the truth'. Popper's great achievement was his insight that the criticism against truthlikeness - by those who urge that it is meaningless to speak about 'closeness to truth' - is more based on prejudice than argument.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Schutzumschlag. Erste Ausgabe. xv, 294 S. Orig.-Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag. Quine's main work, in which he introduces the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis. This is the most philosophical of all of Quine's works, and it has greatly affected the development of logic, philosophy of language and mathematics and analytic philosophy in general. It is in this work that Quine propounds his "indeterminacy of translation"-thesis, which became central in the development of philosophy of language. Bei unserem Exemplar handelt es sich wohl um einen (späteren?) Druck der ersten Ausgabe, die für den ostasiatischen Markt bestimmt war: Der Band wurde statt in hellgrünes in rotes Leinen gebunden und trägt auf der letzten Seite einen gedruckten Vermerk in japanischer (?) Sprache. Seiten 93/94 mit eingefalteter und daher unbeschnitten gebliebener Ecke und der Umschlag mit Randläsuren und kleineren Fehlstellen. Trotz der Gebrauchsspuren des Umschlags handelt es sich um ein schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar dieses philosophischen Klassikers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The modern discussion on the concept of truthlikeness was started in 1960. In his influential Word and Object, W. V. O. Quine argued that Charles Peirce's definition of truth as the limit of inquiry is faulty for the reason that the notion 'nearer than' is only 'defined for numbers and not for theories'. In his contribution to the 1960 International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science at Stan ford, Karl Popper defended the opposite view by defining a compara tive notion of verisimilitude for theories. was originally introduced by the The concept of verisimilitude Ancient sceptics to moderate their radical thesis of the inaccessibility of truth. But soon verisimilitudo, indicating likeness to the truth, was confused with probabilitas, which expresses an opiniotative attitude weaker than full certainty. The idea of truthlikeness fell in disrepute also as a result of the careless, often confused and metaphysically loaded way in which many philosophers used - and still use - such concepts as 'degree of truth', 'approximate truth', 'partial truth', and 'approach to the truth'. Popper's great achievement was his insight that the criticism against truthlikeness - by those who urge that it is meaningless to speak about 'closeness to truth' - is more based on prejudice than argument.