Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy

By Timothy McCarthy

McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation--the project of characterizing from scratch the language and attitudes of an agent or population--and applies it to the problems of indeterminacy of interpretation first described by Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpretive principles, properly applied, can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interpretation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195145062
• ISBN13: 9780195145069
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"