Themes from Wittgenstein and Quine (Grazer Philosophische Studien - International Journal for Analytic Philosophy)

The volume contains new essays on Wittgenstein and on Quine. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenstein's ontological quietism in relation to the realism vs. anti-realism debate, his thesis that mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, his perspectives on the nature of numbers, and on equinumerosity and surveyability, his treatment of mathematical formulas, and his disagreements with Brouwer over the infinite and the law of excluded middle. Six essays are dedicated to the philosophy of Willard Van Orman Quine: they discuss Quine's stance towards the notion of meaning in linguistics and philosophy, his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical translation, his naturalism in semantics, his brand of nominalism, and his attempt to reconstruct possible worlds within an extensionalist framework. Contributors Oswald Chateaubriand, Pasquale Frascolla, Dirk Greimann, Peter Hylton, Guido Imaguire, Mathieu Marion, Felix Mühlhölzer, Mitsuhiro Okada, Esther Ramharter, Ian Rumfitt, Pedro Santos, Severin Schroeder, Rogério Passos Severo Content: Special Topic 1: Wittgenstein / guest editors, Kai Büttner, Florian Demont, David Dolby, Anne-Katrin Schlegel. Realism, anti-realism, quietism : Wittgenstein's stance / Pasquale Frascolla -- Mathematical propositions as rules of grammar / Severin Schroeder -- How arithmetic is about numbers : a Wittgensteinian perspective / Felix Mühlhölzer -- Wittgenstein on equinumerosity and surveyability / Mathieu Marion & Mitsuhiro Okada -- Wittgenstein on formulae / Esther Ramharter -- Brouwer versus Wittgenstein on the infinite and the law of excluded middle / Iam Rumfitt -- Special Topic 2: Quine / guest editor, Dirk Greimann. Significance in Quine / Peter Hylton -- Are there empirical cases of indeterminancy of translation? / Rogério Passos Severo -- Some critical remarks on Quine's thought experiment of radical translation / Oswaldo Chateaubriand -- A tension of Quine's naturalistic ontology of semantics / Dirk Greimann -- In defense of Quine's naturalistic ontology of semantics / Guido Imaguire -- Quinean worlds: possibilist ontology in an extensionalist framework / Pedro Santos. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein{OCLCbr#92}s philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenstein{OCLCbr#92}s ontological quietism in relation to the realism vs. anti-realism debate, his thesis that mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, his perspectives on the nature of numbers, and on equinumerosity and surveyability, his treatment of mathematical formulas, and his disagreements with Brouwer over the infinite and the law of excluded middle.0Six essays are dedicated to the philosophy of Willard Van Orman Quine: they discuss Quine{OCLCbr#92}s stance towards the notion of meaning in linguistics and philosophy, his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical translation, his naturalism in semantics, his brand of nominalism, and his attempt to reconstruct possible worlds within an extensionalist framework