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Author: Quine
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Preface
has always embraced a broad and inclusive spirit, welcoming diverse cultures. While creating a splendid civilization, she continuously absorbs the essence of human civilization, nurturing, strengthening, and developing herself. In the current era of globalization, the interaction and influence among different civilizations have further intensified. With a global perspective and an open vision, introducing the cutting-edge achievements of philosophy and social sciences from around the world serves China's socialist modernization and its strategy of revitalizing the nation through science and education. This is an excellent tradition of publishing in New China and also a significant mission of contemporary Chinese publishers.
Our publishing house has always attached great importance to translating and introducing foreign philosophical and social science achievements. Series such as "Economic Science Translation Series" and "Business Management Classics Translation Series" have been widely welcomed by society. These series primarily focus on Western classical textbooks, while this new series aims to translate contemporary academic masterpieces from abroad. By "contemporary," we generally refer to works published in recent decades, and by "masterpieces," we mean those that have exerted a significant influence in their fields and have been repeatedly cited in various literature, becoming essential reading for researchers. This series is planned to be divided into several sub-series based on disciplines. Through continuous selection and accumulation, it will become a contemporary "Chinese Translation of World Academic Masterpieces," serving as a spiritual sanctuary for readers.
Given that the selected works are relatively recent and have not yet been thoroughly tested by history, coupled with the subjectivity of judgment standards and the limitations of our selection criteria, this work will inevitably fall short of perfection. We look forward to active participation from scholars at home and abroad and to receiving valuable suggestions and opinions on our work. We firmly believe that through the joint efforts of scholars and publishers, this series will continue to improve. Word and Object is a systematic treatise on the philosophy of language by Quine, following his earlier work Word and Object. Building on the social nature of language, the author conducts an empirically grounded study of words, sentences, and their meanings from the perspective of the stimulus-response relationship and mechanisms between subjects and objects. He introduces important concepts and theories, including children's language acquisition, "radical translation" of entirely unfamiliar languages, the uncertainty of translation, stimulus meaning, and stimulus synonymy. The book offers critical discussions on Oxford ordinary language philosophy, fully employing and developing the logical analytical methods of formal languages ("sense explanation," "semantic regression"). It also provides a detailed examination of the obscurity of linguistic means of reference and its solutions. Compared to his previous works, this book more clearly and deeply elaborates on the author's physicalist views on physical and mental objects and his Platonic views on abstract objects (classes, mathematical objects).