“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
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“Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
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academic article
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philosophical essay → |
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criteria of cognitive significance
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relationship between theory and experience → role of convention in meaning → status of analytic truths → |
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W. V. O. Quine
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Willard Van Orman Quine → |
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reductionism about meaning and knowledge is untenable
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the analytic–synthetic distinction is untenable → |
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United States
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analytic–synthetic dichotomy
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logical empiricism → logical positivism → reduction of meaningful statements to sense data → verificationism → |
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epistemology
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philosophy of language → philosophy of science → |
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The Philosophical Review
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classic critique of logical empiricism
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landmark in 20th-century analytic philosophy → |
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Donald Davidson
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Hilary Putnam → Michael Dummett → analytic philosophy → epistemology in the 20th century → holism about confirmation → naturalized epistemology → philosophy of language in the 20th century → semantic holism → |
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collections of analytic philosophy
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readings in epistemology → |
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university philosophy curricula
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English
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analytic–synthetic distinction
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empiricism → meaning and verification → reductionism → |
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Vienna Circle
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analytic philosophy
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confirmation holism
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1951
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Epistemology Naturalized
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Two Dogmas of Empiricism
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