Quine's naturalistic conception of truth

Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena on muodostaa kuvaus Willard Van Orman Quinen (1908–2000) filosofiseen järjestelmään sisältyvän totuuskäsityksestä. Quine käsittelee totuuden luonnetta lukuisissa teoksissaan systemaattisesti läpi pitkän uransa ajan. Tästä huolimatta hänen totuuskäsitystään ei ole tutkitt...

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Main Author: Tauriainen, Teemu
Other Authors: Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/54187
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description Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena on muodostaa kuvaus Willard Van Orman Quinen (1908–2000) filosofiseen järjestelmään sisältyvän totuuskäsityksestä. Quine käsittelee totuuden luonnetta lukuisissa teoksissaan systemaattisesti läpi pitkän uransa ajan. Tästä huolimatta hänen totuuskäsitystään ei ole tutkittu muutamia yksittäisiä artikkeleita lukuun ottamatta. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena on täyttää tätä olemassa olevaa aukkoa suhteellisen laajassa Quinen filosofista järjestelmää käsittelevässä tutkimuskentässä. Argumentoin sen puolesta, kuinka Quinen filosofisen järjestelmän osaksi kuuluu hänen filosofisiin sitoumuksiinsa perustuva koherentti totuuskäsitys. Pyrin osoittamaan, kuinka tämä totuuskäsitys koostuu kahdesta aspektista, joista ensimmäinen koskee totuuspredikaatin funktionaalista luonnetta kielellisenä instrumenttina ja toinen tieteellisiin teorioihin liittyvää totuutta eräänlaisena tutkimuksellisena päämääränä. Esitän tulkinnan, jonka mukaan nämä kaksi aspektia liittyvät toisiinsa muodostaen Quinen yhtenäisen totuuskäsityksen. Tämä totuuskäsitys perustuu edelleen Alfred Tarskin (1944) semanttiseen totuuskäsitykseen ja Quinen omaan naturalistiseen filosofiaan. Tutkielma esittää näkemyksen jonka mukaan Quinen naturalistinen filosofia, joka perustuu hänen sitoumuksiinsa koskien jyrkkään empirismiä ja skientismiä, osoittautuu hänen filosofisen järjestelmänsä keskeisimmäksi osa-alueeksi. Quinen naturalistiseen ajatteluun sisältyvät filosofiset sitoumukset osoittautuvat määrittäviksi tekijöiksi koskien hänen kielifilosofisia näkemyksiään erityisesti behavioristisen kielikäsityksen ja empiristisen merkitysteorian osalta. Kaikki edellä mainitut sitoumukset vaikuttavat Quinen totuuskäsityksen luonteeseen. Tutkielma esittää aikaisemmin esitetyistä tulkinnoista poikkeavan näkemyksen Quinen filosofiseen järjestelmään sisältyvän totuuskäsityksen luonteesta. Tutkielman tulosten perusteella voidaan argumentoida sellaisia näkemyksiä vastaan, jotka esittävät Quinen sitoutuvan useampaan kuin yhteen totuuskäsitykseen. Tämän lisäksi tutkielman tulosten perusteella voidaan problematisoida Quinen totuuskäsitystä koskevia deflationistisia tulkintoja. Yleisemmällä tasolla tutkielman tuloksia voidaan soveltaa naturalististen ajatusjärjestelmien ja niihin sisältyvien totuuskäsitysten tutkimuksessa. This study attempts to provide a description of the truth conception that is a part of Willard Van Orman Quine’s (1908–2000) philosophical system. Quine discusses the nature of truth in many of his works systematically throughout his career. Regardless of this, Quine’s truth conception has not been studied apart from few individual articles. This study attempts to offer a contribution to this lack of research concerning Quine’s truth conception in the reasonably broad field of research that concerns his philosophical system. I argue that Quine’s philosophical system includes a coherent truth conception that is based on his philosophical commitments. I will present support for my claim of how Quine's truth conception consists of two aspects, one relating to the functional nature of the truth predicate and the other to the immanent nature of truth to a scientific theory. I present an interpretation of how these two aspects can be understood as connecting to one another and thus forming a single and coherent truth conception. This conception is further based on Alfred Tarski’s (1944) semantic conception of truth and Quine’s own naturalistic philosophy. This study presents a view of Quine’s philosophical system that sees his naturalistic thought, which includes his commitments to strict empiricism and scientism, as the most central aspect of his overall philosophical system. The philosophical commitments of Quine’s naturalistic philosophy prove to be determining factors in relation to his philosophy of language; especially Quine’s commitments to linguistic behaviorism and empirical notion of meaning are influenced by the commitments of his naturalistic philosophy. All of these commitments further affect the nature of Quine’s truth conception. This study presents a differing interpretation of Quine's truth conception to what some contemporary researchers have claimed. The results of this study can be utilized in arguing against those types of interpretations that see Quine's philosophical system as including multiple truth conceptions. Additionally, the results of this study can be used as an instrument in problematizing those types of interpretations that label Quine as a supporter of a deflationary theory of truth. At a more general level, the results of this study can provide utility to the research concerning naturalistic thought systems in general and the types of truth conceptions they entail.
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