Book contents
- The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine
- The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Carnap, Quine, and Logical Empiricism
- Part II Carnap, Quine, and American Pragmatism
- Chapter 4 Pragmatism in Carnap and Quine
- Chapter 5 Objectivity Socialized
- Chapter 6 Whose Dogmas of Empiricism?
- Part III Carnap and Quine on Logic, Language, and Translation
- Part IV Carnap and Quine on Ontology and Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Objectivity Socialized
from Part II - Carnap, Quine, and American Pragmatism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2023
- The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine
- The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Carnap, Quine, and Logical Empiricism
- Part II Carnap, Quine, and American Pragmatism
- Chapter 4 Pragmatism in Carnap and Quine
- Chapter 5 Objectivity Socialized
- Chapter 6 Whose Dogmas of Empiricism?
- Part III Carnap and Quine on Logic, Language, and Translation
- Part IV Carnap and Quine on Ontology and Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This essay contrasts Rudolf Carnap’s and W. V. Quine’s responses to the challenge that their positions distort the social nature of inquiry. In Quine’s case, the challenge is the heart of Donald Davidson’s insistence that naturalized epistemology fails to capture the objectivity of thought. In Carnap’s case, the challenge may be detected in Charles Morris’s call for semiotic rather than syntax to ground scientific philosophy. Drawing out the challenge in Morris’s proposal requires considering a neglected influence on this neglected philosopher: his advisor George Herbert Mead’s social theory of mind. Meeting the underlying demand that objectivity be socialized, I argue, requires those of us who wish to pursue Carnap and Quine’s scientific vision of philosophy to recognize the ineliminable role other inquirers play in our own investigations.
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- The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine , pp. 92 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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