Convention, Translation, and Understanding: Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture - Rilegato

Feleppa, Robert

 
9780887066733: Convention, Translation, and Understanding: Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture

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This book surveys several theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological inquiry as indicative of conceptual problems in the basic assumptions operative in the discipline, and in the study of language in general. Feleppa offers a revised view of the nature and function of translation in anthropology that gives a plausible account of the problems that traditional semantics introduces into anthropology, while avoiding the severe methodological import Quine envisions.

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Robert Feleppa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University.

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ISBN 10:  0887066747 ISBN 13:  9780887066740
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1988
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