The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science
Nov 21, 2012
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Philosophy As A Branch Of Science
- Quine treats philosophy as continuous with science and rejects special philosophical methods.
- He holds that facts must be discoverable by natural scientific methods to count as real.
Ontological Parsimony Matches Scientific Practice
- Quine advocates minimizing ontological commitments like a scientist minimizing variables.
- He objects to positing entities science cannot, even in principle, study.
Logic Central To Quine's Science
- Quine keeps logic central to science and philosophy, treating ideal logical language as the purest scientific form.
- He expects scientific theorizing to be expressible in austere logical terms.