Words and Objections

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Editorial Introduction.- Quine’s Philosophy of Science.- An Introduction to ‘Translation and Meaning’, Chapter Two of Word and Object.- Beginning with Ordinary Things.- Quine’s Empirical Assumptions.- Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation.- Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation.- Singular Terms and Predication.- Vacuous Names.- Quine’s Syntactical Insights.- On Saying That.- Quine on Modality.- Some Problems about Belief.- Quantifying In.- Logic with Platonism.- On the Consistency of a Slight (?) Modification of Quine’s New Foundations.- Replies.- Publications of W. V. Quine.