Abstract
Thomas Kelly, “Quine and Epistemology”: For Quine, as for many canonical philosophers since Descartes, epistemology stands at the very center of philosophy. In this chapter, I discuss some central themes in Quine’s epistemology. I attempt to provide some historical context for Quine’s views, in order to make clear why they were seen as such radical challenges to then prevailing orthodoxies within analytic philosophy. I also highlight aspects of his views that I take to be particularly relevant to contemporary epistemology.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | A Companion to W. V. O. Quine |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 281-295 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118607992 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470672105 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2013 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
Keywords
- A priori knowledge
- Abstract objects
- Indispensability argument
- Nominalism
- Ontological commitment
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Quantification
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