TY - BOOK ID - 76611596 TI - Quine and Davidson on language, thought, and reality PY - 2003 SN - 0521821800 0521048052 1107136709 051117909X 0511061935 0511055609 0511326041 0511487517 1280434724 1139148931 051107039X 9780511061936 9780511055607 9780511070396 9780521821803 9780511487514 9781280434723 9786610434725 6610434727 9780521048057 9781139148931 9780511179099 9780511326042 9780521048057 9781107136700 PB - Cambridge, UK New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy KW - Davidson, Donald, KW - Quine, W. V. KW - Quine, Willard Van Orman KW - Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen KW - קואיין, ו. ו. א. KW - Davidson, Donald KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy. KW - Contributions in philosophy of language. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:76611596 AB - Quine and Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their impact is also strongly felt in disciplines such as linguistics and psychology. This book is devoted to both of them, but also questions some of their basic assumptions. Hans-Johann Glock critically scrutinizes their ideas on ontology, truth, necessity, meaning and interpretation, thought and language, and shows that their attempts to accommodate meaning and thought within a naturalistic framework, either by impugning them as unclear or by extracting them from physical facts, are ultimately unsuccessful. His discussion includes interesting comparisons of Quine and Davidson with other philosophers, particularly Wittgenstein, and also offers detailed accounts of central issues in contemporary analytic philosophy, such as the nature of truth and of meaning and interpretation, and the relation between thought and language. ER -