Multimedia Collection
The Boolos Panel
(In Conversation: W.V. Quine series)
VHS
119 minutes
B945 .Q54 I55 1994 pt.5
The guest panelist in this program is George Boolos, Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in logic, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of language. He has published extensively in these areas and his books include Computability and Logic, co-authored with Richard Jeffrey, The Unprovability of Consistency and The Logic of Provability.
Quine is questioned by the panel in detail about his arguments in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". This leads in turn to a close examination of his stance on meaning in general, and his indeterminacy of translation thesis. Next Quine's scepticism about meaning and his linguistic behaviorism is explored along with his view of the notorious differences between himself and Chomsky.
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