Beschreibung:
In this book, W. V. Quine's Immanuel Kant Lectures entitled Science and Sensibilia are published for the first time in English. These lectures represent an important stage in the development of Quine's later thought, where he is more explicit about the importance of physicalist constraints in his account of the steps from sensory stimulation to scientific theory, and in further using them to assess the extent to which mental vocabulary is defensible.
Editor's Introduction.- PART I: THE LECTURES.- Lecture I. Prolegomena: Mind and Its Place in Nature.- Lecture II. Endolegomena: From Ostension to Quantification.- Lecture III. Endolegomena loipa: The Forked Animal.- Lecture IV. What is it All About?.- PART II: INTERPRATIVE ESSAYS.- Quine and the Kantian Problem of Objectivity, Gary Kemp.- Quine on the Norms of Naturalized Epistemology, Gary Ebbs.- Quine's Ding an sich: Proxies, Structure, and Naturalism, Paul Gregory.- "Mental States are like Diseases" Behaviourism in the Immanuel Kant Lectures, Sander Verhaegh.- Quine, Ontology, and Physicalism, Frederique Janssen-Lauret.