Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction
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17K02269
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of thought
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| Research Institution | Soka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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| Keywords | Quine / Lewis / Naturalized Epistemology / Pragmatism / Analyticity / A Priori / C. I. Lewis / Epistemology / A priori / 哲学 / 思想史 / C.I. Lewis / Pragmatsm / W. V. Quine / The Given / w.v. quine / c. i. lewis / a priori / pragmatism |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Quine’s occasional references to his ‘pragmatism’ suggest a possible link to the American Pragmatism of Peirce, James and Dewey. This research project argues that the influence of pragmatism on Quine’s philosophy is more accurately traced to his teacher C.I. Lewis and his conceptual pragmatism. Quine’s epistemological views share many affinities with Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism, where knowledge is conceived as a conceptual framework pragmatically revised in light of what future experience reveals. This view is further defended by showing how Lewis’s influence can be seen in several key episodes in Quine’s philosophical development. This not only highlights a forgotten element of the epistemological backdrop to Quine’s mid-century criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction, but provides the central epistemological framework for understanding the form of Quine’s later naturalized conception of epistemology.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This project provides the first detailed account of Lewis's influence on Quine's developing views in epistemology and his famous critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction. It further shows that Lewis’s later epistemology is a key source of Quine’s naturalized epistemology.
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Report
(7 results)
Research Products
(21 results)
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[Journal Article] Pragmatism2023
Author(s)
Robert Sinclair
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Journal Title
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Edited by James Mattingly
Volume: NA
Pages: 748-750
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Int'l Joint Research
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[Journal Article] Pragmatism2022
Author(s)
Robert Sinclair
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Journal Title
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Volume: N/A
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[Journal Article] Reification2018
Author(s)
Ｒｏｂｅｒｔ Ｓｉｎｃｌａｉｒ
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Journal Title
Bad Arguments: One Hundred of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy, Edited by Robert Arp, Michael Bruce and Steve Barbone
Volume: ＮＡ
Pages: 378-81
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Int'l Joint Research
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[Presentation] Quine, Lewis and Phenomenalism2022
Author(s)
Robert Sinclair
Organizer
The Tenth Annual Conference of Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP), School of Philosophy and Sociology, Shanxi University, China. (Online)
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Int'l Joint Research
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