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12Quine on the Indeterminacy of TranslationIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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12Review of Peter Olen and Carl Sachs: Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C.I. Lewis (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (1): 201-205. 2019.
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10ReificationIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy, 'reification'. A relative newcomer to the world of logical fallacies, reification is difficult to place and its status as a fallacy not that well understood. In general, reification involves taking something that is abstract, like an idea or concept, and making it concrete, or assigning it a concrete, 'real' existence. The standard analysis of reification presents it as a fallacy of presumption, which can be avoided by mi…Read more
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9Quine on EvidenceIn Ernie Lepore & Gilbert Harman (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.Alex Orenstein: “Inscrutability Scrutinized”: This is a reply to Quine's comments on an earlier paper. In his comments on that earlier paper Quine acknowledged that distinguishing the inscrutability of reference from the indeterminacy of meaning might be preferable to other of his ways of referring to this distinction. He also agreed that inscrutability of reference is a strong claim, a “thesis”, proven as per model theory. His examples of inscrutability are examined and supplemented with other …Read more
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7Introduction: Quine’s Immanuel Kant LecturesIn Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures, Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.These introductory remarks provide an overview of the project Quine develops in his Kant lectures. Much of the lectures are aimed at locating mentalistic discourse within a scientific, physicalist framework, where this forms part of a scientific, if abstract, explanation of how we come to know the external world and other minds without an appeal to mental entities or other sensibilia. I further attempt to illuminate Quine’s physicalist rendering of perception through a comparison with Austin’s o…Read more
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7Quine's Epistemology NaturalizedIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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6Quine's Two Dogmas of EmpiricismIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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6Quine's epistemology naturalizedIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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5Quine's two dogmas of empiricismIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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2Working from within: the nature and development of Quine’s naturalism: by Sander Verhaegh, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. vii + 218, £47.99 (hb), ISBN: 978-0-19091-315-1 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (2): 426-428. 2020.Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2020, Page 426-428.
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Quine on EvidenceIn Gilbert Harman & Ernest LePore (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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Paul A. Gregory, Quine's Naturalism: Language, Theory and the Knowing Subject (review)Philosophy in Review 29 (4): 257. 2009.