Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy

ISBN-13: 9780195145069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str.

Timothy G. McCarthy; Timothy McCarthy

Opis

McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation--the project of characterizing from scratch the language and attitudes of an agent or population--and applies it to the problems of indeterminacy of interpretation first described by Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpretive principles, properly applied, can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interpretation.

Recenzje

In Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, Timothy McCarthy undertakes an attractive project that attempts to bring together two dominant themes in the philosophy of language of the last half century.