CONTENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Prospect -- 1.2 Some Recent History -- 1.3 Conformal Interpretation -- 1.4 Logic and Radical Interpretation -- 1.5 The Limits of Determinacy -- 1.6 Credo -- CHAPTER TWO: RADICAL INTERPRETATION -- 2.1 The Problem -- 2.2 The Minimal Framework -- 2.3 Isomorphism and Indeterminacy -- 2.4 Conformal Explanation and Semantic Content -- 2.5 Conformal Interpretation -- 2.6 Conclusion -- POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER TWO: PROBLEMS OF APPROXIMATE REALIZATION -- A. Introductory Remarks -- B. Kripke's Problem
C. Turing Machines and Their RealizationsD. Partial Realization -- E. Indeterminacies of Partial Realization -- F. Other Conditions -- G. Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER THREE: THE ROOTS OF REFERENCE -- 3.1 Naming and Conformality -- 3.2 Observation Terms -- 3.3 Homogeneous Natural Kind Terms -- 3.4 Grounding the Model -- 3.5 Reference to Inhomogeneous Kinds -- POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER THREE: INHOMOGENEOUS KIND TERMS AND MODELS OF VAGUENESS -- A. The Fuzzy Set Model -- B. The Supervaluation Model -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE GROUND OF LOGIC -- 4.1 Introduction
4.2 Framework 14.3 Invariance 1 -- 4.4 Completeness and Determinacy -- 4.5 Characterizing Alternatives 1 -- 4.6 The Bounds of Logic 1 -- 4.7 Framework 2 -- 4.8 Invariance 2 -- 4.10 The Bounds of Logic 2 -- 4.11 Endpoint -- POSTSCRIPTS TO CHAPTER FOUR -- A. An Abstract Completeness Property -- B. The Lindenbaum Condition -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z
Summary
Timothy McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation - the project of characterising from scratch the language and attitudes of an unknown agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first described in the writings of Quine
