GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) Philosophy (XH-C4) Video Course Lecture: Quine: The Two Dogmas of Empiricism (20 mins) | Lecture 217 of 301

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  • Contemporary Western Philosophy » W.V.O. Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism

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Quine: The two Dogmas of Empiricism

  • Understanding the problem that Quine finds with how Empiricists have understood the dichotomy between Analytic and Synthetic propositions
  • Understanding Quine՚s 1 Dogma: He rejects Empiricists ‘analytic propositions’ Definition and Cognitive Synonymity
  • Understanding Quine՚s 2nd Dogma: He rejects Reductionism
  • Understanding how Quine՚s philosophy is called Radical Empiricism
  • Discussing some criticism on Quine՚s Radical Empiricism

References: Existentialism: A reconstruction by David Cooper and Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre. Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, A History of Western Philosophy by Russell.

Continental Philosophy by David West, Continental Philosophy by Simon Critchley. Encyclopaedia of Philosophy