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W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000), American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. His major works include From a Logical Point of View (1953) and Word and Object (1960). His fields of specialization were philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.
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Empiricism: a branch within epistemology which assumes that sensory perception is fundamental for setting up claims and theories. The opposite position, rationalism, assumes that even purely logical knowledge and conclusions from this knowledge may be sufficient for the building of theories. See also logical positivism, instrumentalism, rationalism, epistemology, theories, foundation, experiments, > inferentialism, knowledge, experience, science._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Adorno, Th.W. | Empiricism | Adorno | |
Barrow, John D. | Empiricism | Barrow | |
Brandom, Robert | Empiricism | Brandom | |
Carnap, Rudolf | Empiricism | Carnap | |
Dewey, John | Empiricism | Dewey | |
Dummett, Michael E. | Empiricism | Dummett | |
Easton, David | Empiricism | Easton | |
Economic Theories | Empiricism | Economic Theories | |
Feyerabend, Paul | Empiricism | Feyerabend | |
Feynman, Richard | Empiricism | Feynman | |
Fodor, Jerry | Empiricism | Fodor | |
Fraassen, Bas van | Empiricism | Fraassen | |
Genz, Hennig | Empiricism | Genz | |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Empiricism | Goethe | |
Habermas, Jürgen | Empiricism | Habermas | |
Hacking, Ian | Empiricism | Hacking | |
Hume, David | Empiricism | Hume | |
Husserl, Edmund | Empiricism | Husserl | |
James, William | Empiricism | James | |
Kant, Immanuel | Empiricism | Kant | |
Locke, John | Empiricism | Locke | |
McDowell, John | Empiricism | McDowell | |
Millikan, Ruth | Empiricism | Millikan | |
Peacocke, Christopher | Empiricism | Peacocke | |
Popper, Karl | Empiricism | Popper | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Empiricism | Quine | |
Rorty, Richard | Empiricism | Rorty | |
Searle, John R. | Empiricism | Searle | |
Sellars, Wilfrid | Empiricism | Sellars | |
Strawson, Peter F. | Empiricism | Strawson | |
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