Quine's philosophy of science

Name: Quine's philosophy of science
Creator: Smart, J. J. C.
Keywords: philosophy and foundations of mathematics, 16. Peace & justice, 7. Clean energy

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Quine's philosophy of science

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Part of book or chapter of book 01 Dec 1968 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Synthese, volume 19, pages 3-13 (issn: 0039-7857, eissn: 1573-0964,

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Authors: Smart, J. J. C.;

doi: 10.1007/bf00568046 , 10.1007/978-94-010-1709-1_2

Quine's philosophy of science

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A fairly definite philosophy of science can be extracted from Quine’s Word and Object (henceforth referred to as WO). Earlier versions of his philosophy of science, for example in his From a Logical Point of View, contain phenomenalist and instrumentalist tendencies of thought, but in WO these have almost entirely disappeared in favour of an explicitly realistic philosophy of science. What, then, is Quine’s philosophy of science in WO?

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philosophy and foundations of mathematics

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