Conventionalism and the Impoverishment of the Space of Reasons: Carnap, Quine and Sellars

This article examines how Quine and Sellars develop informatively contrasting responses to a fundamental tension in Carnap’s semantics ca. 1950. Quine’s philosophy could well be styled ‘Essays in Radical Empiricism’; his assay of radical empiricism is invaluable for what it reveals about the inheren...

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Main Author: Kenneth R Westphal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MULPress 2015-10-01
Series:Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Online Access:https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/42