Analyticity

by Juhl; Cory F

• ISBN13: 9780415773331
• ISBN10: 0415773334
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-09-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Analyticity, or the 'analytic/synthetic' distinction is one of the most important and controversial problems in contemporary philosophy. It is also essential to understanding many developments in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. In this outstanding introduction to analyticity Cory Juhl and Eric Loomis cover the following key topics: The origins of analyticity in the philosophy of Hume and Kant Carnap's arguments concerning analyticity in the early twentieth century Quine's famous objections to analyticity in his classic 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' essay The relationship between analyticity and central issues in metaphysics, such as ontology The relationship between analyticity and epistemology Analyticity in the context of the current debates in philosophy, including mathematics and ontology Throughout the book the authors show how many philosophical controversies hinge on the problem of analyticity. Additional features include chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary of technical terms making the book ideal to those coming to the problem for the first time.

Author Biography

Cory Juhl is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His papers have appeared in Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Analysis, Philosophical Studies, The Monist, The Journal of Philosophical Logic, and the book Reading Putnam (1994). Eric Loomis is an Associate Professor at the University of South Alabama. His papers have appeared in Synthese, Theoria, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Conceptions of Analytic Truth	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Hume's Fork	p. 1
Kant and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction	p. 4
Synthetic A Priori Propositions	p. 8
Bolzano and Analyticity	p. 11
Analyticity in Frege	p. 13
Russell's Paradox and the Theory of Descriptions	p. 16
The Vienna Circle	p. 18
Carnap and Logical Empiricism	p. 22
Chapter Summary	p. 26
Further Reading	p. 28
Carnap and Quine	p. 30
Introduction and Overview	p. 30
Demise of the Aufbau	p. 31
Philosophy as Logical Syntax	p. 34
Logical and Descriptive Languages	p. 36
Physical Languages	p. 40
Analyticity in Syntax	p. 45
Carnap's Move to Semantics	p. 49
Explications	p. 55
Analyticity in a Semantic Setting	p. 57
Eliminating Metaphysics: Carnap's Final Try	p. 60
W.V. Quine: Explication is Elimination	p. 64
Behaviorists Ex Officio	p. 69
Analyticity in the Crosshairs	p. 73
Chapter Summary	p. 74
Further Reading	p. 77
Analyticity and Its Discontents	p. 79
Introduction and Overview	p. 79
Questioning Analyticity	p. 82
Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'	p. 83
Objections to the Intelligibility of 'Analytic'	p. 84
Quine's Coherence Arguments: Carnap's Reply	p. 96
Other Responses to the Coherence Objection: Grice and Strawson on Quine	p. 101
A Second Dogma of Empiricism	p. 109
Responses to the Existence Objections to Analyticity	p. 114
Analyticity by Convention	p. 119
Quine's Developed Attitude toward Analyticity	p. 123
Chapter Summary	p. 125
Further Reading	p. 127
Analyticity and Ontology	p. 129
Introduction and Overview	p. 129
Quine's Naturalized Ontology	p. 130
The Indeterminacy of Translation	p. 137
Some Consequences of the Indeterminacy Arguments: Ontological Relativity and Analyticity	p. 142
Responses to Quine's Indeterminacy Arguments	p. 146
Carnap's 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology'	p. 152
Some Quinean and Other Responses to 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology'	p. 158
Some Recent Connections between 'Conceptual Truths' and Ontology	p. 163
Quine's Criterion of Ontological Commitment, Causality, and 'Exists'	p. 164
Eli Hirsch and Ted Sider on Mereological Principles	p. 166
The 'Canberra Project': A Resurrection of Carnap's Aufbau?	p. 167
Chapter Summary	p. 171
Further Reading	p. 173
Analyticity and Epistemology	p. 174
Introduction and Overview	p. 174
Analytic Truths and their Role in Epistemology: The 'Classical' Position	p. 175
Objecting to the Classical Position	p. 179
Bonjour on Moderate Empiricism	p. 187
Quine's 'Epistemology Naturalized'	p. 195
Quine and Evidence: Responses to Circularity	p. 199
Kripke on Apriority, Analyticity, and Necessity	p. 205
Chapter Summary	p. 209
Further Reading	p. 210
Analyticity Repositioned	p. 212
Introduction and Overview	p. 212
The Best Cases: Stipulations and Mathematics	p. 214
One Type of Statement that Might Be Reasonably Called 'Analytic'	p. 214
Aside on 'Two-Dimensionalism'	p. 216
Analyticity* and T-Analyticity	p. 218
How Analyticity* Avoids Many Common Objections to Analyticity	p. 221
Some Brief Comments on Two Other Approaches to Analyticity	p. 239
Mathematical Claims as T-Analytic	p. 245
A Further Potential Application: Pure and Impure Stipulata	p. 257
Some Methodological Remarks	p. 258
Chapter Summary	p. 264
Further Reading	p. 267
Glossary of Philosophical Terms	p. 269
Notes	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 309
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