CLARIYING WORD'S NATURE

Authors

  • Waldomiro Silva Filho UFBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v13i1.8405

Keywords:

Dialogue, analytic philosophy, naturalism, Quine

Abstract

Willard Van Orman Quine (1902-2000) had a decisive role in setting the agenda of the themes, instruments and procedures of contemporary philosophy, providing an original meeting between American thinking and European, as well as in the delimitation of the most significant characteristics of analytical philosophy. Their most well-known theses - refutation of the analytic-synthetic distinction; the indeterminacy of translation; ontological relativity; behaviorism; holism; the naturalization of epistemology - involving fields of ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind have serve the purpose of eroding borders that were historically prevalent between philosophy and natural science and, in this step, have shaped New Territories to the philosophical investigation.

The publication of Quine in Dialogue witness not only the presence of the strong and unshakeable interest for the ideas of Quine, but mainly the strength of an intellectual practice style that has been marked deeply the philosophical English-speaking community; a practice that has as a characteristic mark the wide, open and indeterminate  dialogue around themes, issues and concepts and not the worship of personalities, works and theories of the past. 

This review seeks to highlight that this work presents Quine as a philosopher that not only maintained a rich dialogue with other philosophers, many of them colleagues and ex-students - influencing and being influenced by them - but also as an intellectual who believed that the practice of dialogue is critical to the advancement of thought.

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Author Biography

Waldomiro Silva Filho, UFBA

Pesquisador do CNPq (Produtividade em Pesquisa), atualmente é "visiting scholar" no Departamento de Filosofia da Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass., Estados Unidos). Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (1989), com Pós-doutorado em Filosofia pela Purdue University, Estados Unidos (2003). Atualmente é Professor Associado da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Sua atividade de pesquisa e ensino se concentra na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Epistemologia, Ceticismo, Filosofia da Mente e Pragmatismo. ?Publicou e organizou, entre outros, os seguintes livros: Mente, Linguagem e Mundo (2009), Razones e Interpretaciones (com Carlos Caorsi, Ediciones Del Signo, Argentina, 2008), Ensaios sobre Ceticismo (com Plínio Smith, Alameda, 2006), Significado, Verdade, Interpretação: Davidson e a Filosofia (com Plínio Smith, Loyola, 2005), O Ceticismo e a Possibilidade da Filosofia (Unijuí, 2005), Razão Mínima (com Luiz Paulo Rouanet, Unimarco, 2004), Da Interpretação: Ensaios sobre Davidson (2004), Epistemologia e Ensino de Ciências (Arcadia, 2002), Ensaios sobre a Verdade (com textos de Donald Davidson, Unimarco, 2002)

Published

2009-12-14

How to Cite

FILHO, W. S. CLARIYING WORD’S NATURE. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 13, n. 1, p. 175–184, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v13i1.8405. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/8405. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.