Radical Interpretation And Indeterminacy Hardcover

Timothy McCarthy

McCarthy develops a theory of Radical Interpertation - The project of characterizing from scratch the language and attituteds of an agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first descrided in the writings of Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpertive principles, properly applied, can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interperation. Its most substantive contribution is in proposing a solution to problems of indeterminacy that remain unsloved in the literature.

9780195145069

English

Oxford University Press Inc

01-01-2003

270

In Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy, Timothy McCarthy undertakes an attractive project that attempts to bring together two dominant themes in the philosophy of language of the last half century. * Mind *