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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi Quine, Structure, and Ontology OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES This series consists of carefully selected volumes of significant original papers on predefined themes, normally growing out of a conference supported by a Mind AssociationMajorConferenceGrant.TheAssociationnominatesaneditororeditors foreachcollection,andmaycooperatewithotherbodiesinpromotingconferences orotherscholarlyactivitiesinconnectionwiththepreparationofparticularvolumes. 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LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi Contents Contributors vii 1. Introduction 1 FrederiqueJanssen-Lauret 2. Quine’sNon-ontologicalStructuralism(andMine) 7 MichaelD.Resnik 3. W.V.QuineandDavidLewis:Structural(Epistemological)Humility 27 FrederiqueJanssen-LauretandFraserMacBride 4. QuineonOntologicalCommitmentinLightofPredicate-FunctorLogic 56 JohnCollins 5. InscrutabilityofReferenceasaResultofQuine’sStructuralism 82 JaroslavPeregrin 6. Quine’sDeflationaryStructuralism 96 PaulA.Gregory 7. TheOntogenyofQuine’sOntology:Pythagoreanism,Nominalism, andtheRoleofClarity 117 GregFrost-Arnold 8. Quine’sStructuralHolismandtheConstitutiveAPriori 147 RobertSinclair 9. QuineonOntology:Chapter7ofWordandObject 168 GaryKempandAndrewLugg 10. OnWhatExists 200 NathanSalmón 11. Quinevs.Quine:AbstractKnowledgeandOntology 230 GilaSher 12. ANewLookatQuineonSetTheory 253 MariannaAntonuttiMarfori 13. WhatQuine(andCarnap)MightSayaboutContemporaryMetaphysics ofTime 280 NataljaDeng Index 297 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi Contributors MariannaAntonuttiMarfori, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen JohnCollins,UniversityofEastAnglia NataljaDeng,UnderwoodInternationalCollege,YonseiUniversity GregFrost-Arnold,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges PaulA.Gregory,W&LUniversity FrederiqueJanssen-Lauret,UniversityofManchester GaryKemp,UniversityofGlasgow AndrewLugg,UniversityofOttawa FraserMacBride,UniversityofManchester JaroslavPeregrin, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences and FacultyofPhilosophy,UniversityofHradecKràlové MichaelD.Resnik,UniversityofNorthCarolina NathanSalmón,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara GilaSher,UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego RobertSinclair,SokaUniversity,Tokyo OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,23/9/2020,SPi 1 Introduction FrederiqueJanssen-Lauret Ontology,epistemology,andthephilosophyoflogicandlanguageincurrentanalytic philosophy still owe much to the influence of Quine. Quine urged, against the positivistsandespeciallyCarnap,thatlanguagetouchesupontheworldasawhole,not beingseparableintoaconventionalpartandareferentialpart,andthatconsequently existence questions are all of a piece with empirical ones. Ontological questions are thus real, answerable questions with empirical import, not unanswerable, mere mattersofstipulation,oranswerableeasilyandtrivially.Quine’sargumentsforthis position continue to hold the attention of many prominent philosophers, some of whomareconcernedtodefendthem,otherstorebutthem.Intherecentpast,work intheseareashasbeguntotakeanincreasinglydismissiveattitudetowardsQuine. Commentators frequently portray him as having an overly narrow conception of metaphysicsandanout-of-dateperspectiveonthephilosophyoflanguage.Butsuch dismissals are often themselves liable to oversimplify Quinean views. This volume, grown out of a Mind Association-funded international conference hosted by the Forum for Quine and the History of Analytic Philosophy, aims to fill the resulting gapsintheliteraturebycollectingtogetherarangeofphilosophersexpertinQuine toinvestigatequestionsontheintersectionoflanguage,epistemology,andontology, frombothQuineanandwell-informedcriticalpointsofview.Itschaptersarecentred aroundtheratherunderratedQuineandoctrineofstructuralism. One source of prevalent misconceptions about Quine is a treatment of Quinean thoughtasamonolith,ratherthanabodyofworkwhichrevealssubstantialgrowth anddevelopmentandoftenprovidesdetailedanswersto,ordeftlyrebuts,objections currentlypresentedasnovelanddaring.Quine’slaterviews,especiallyhisattemptsto resolvecertaintensionsinhisearlierworks,havegoneunremarkedbycontemporary critics. Contemporary philosophers often take for granted that certain Quinean crowd-pleasers, such as ‘On What There Is’, ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, chapter 2 of Word and Object, or ‘Ontological Relativity’, represent a full statement of his finalviewsonontology,semanticholism,orlanguage,interpretation,andreference. Well-worn lines from these classics are frequently quoted out of context and held FrederiqueJanssen-Lauret,IntroductionIn:Quine,Structure,andOntology.Editedby:FrederiqueJanssen-Lauret, OxfordUniversityPress(2020).©FrederiqueJanssen-Lauret. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198864288.003.0001
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