Quine’s Ontology

The Interplay Between Commitment and Decision

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ID13002015
AutoresAndrei Mărășoiu (0000-0001-9400-7702, Instituto de Filosofía, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume12
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2036-4091 • E-ISSN: 2036-4091
EditoraAssociazione Pragma (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.4000/ejpap.2243
OpenAlexW3111198217
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas22

This paper elaborates on the relation between Quine’s notion of ontological commitment and his philosophy of science. I distinguish and present Quine’s solutions to two problems of existence, a semantic problem, roughly amounting to asking how existence can be expressed within a certain language, and an epistemological problem, roughly amounting to how the members of the scientific community can decide which theories are warranted. The gap between these problems is filled by noticing that existence is equated by Quine with reference, and that the principle of context imposes the epistemological primacy of truth over reference. Truth, in its turn, albeit given a purely semantic account along the lines of Tarski, is coextensive with the notion of warranted belief

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Ontology · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Quine · Relation (database · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science