ABSTRACT

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth?
In this book, Jodi Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.

chapter |10 pages

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I PROCEDURAL FOUNDATIONALISM

part |2 pages

Part III PERMUTING REFERENCE

chapter |3 pages

§ 1 INTRODUCTION TO PART III

chapter |4 pages

§ 2 FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS

chapter |12 pages

§ 3 QUINE’S VERSION

chapter |3 pages

§ 4 FIELD’S VERSION

chapter |7 pages

§ 5 PUTNAM’S VERSION

chapter |7 pages

§ 7 SOME PUZZLES ABOUT REFERENCE

chapter |3 pages

§ 8 CONCLUSION TO PART III

part |2 pages

Part IV THE TRANSCENDENCE OF REFERENCE

chapter |3 pages

§ 1 INTRODUCTION TO PART IV

chapter |11 pages

§ 2 TROUBLES FOR NAIVE NATURALISM

chapter |12 pages

§ 3 THE ELUSIVITY OF REFERENCE

chapter |7 pages

§ 4 CAUSALITY AND REFERENCE

An analysis

chapter |11 pages

§ 5 TRANSCENDING PROCEDURES

chapter |7 pages

§ 6 TRANSCENDENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS

chapter |3 pages

GENERAL CONCLUSION