...W. V. Quine; Jeffrey M. Perl In this brief essay Quine clarifies and limits his sometimes misconstrued and misapplied thesis of the “indeterminacy of translation.” It does not imply, as some have claimed, that translation is impossible or arbitrary. Nor does it say (as due consideration...

... philosophers except Richard Rorty and Roger Gibson who both understand Quine’s claims about the indeterminacy of translation in their full radicality and also believe them. But the process of thinking and rethinking what we mean by translation (and by meaning...

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... to reach the brain for cognitive understanding of the thing seen. These lights and colors projected onto the retina had to be translated through the nerves’ “opaque, and therefore dark, parts” in order to reach the observer's consciousness, a process that Kepler regarded as “ completely removed . . . from...

... is actually a studied, careful commitment to indeterminacy, more a rule more arule indeterminacy, to commitment careful astudied, actually is 3...

... . and “Indeterminacy of Translation and of Truth” of and Translation of “Indeterminacy and 176 12 (  – 1970  86...

... 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall 1992. This call for papers was published among the second group. multicultural studies hermeneutics incommensurability indeterminacy of translation isogesis Copyright © 1995 1995 ...

... indeterminacy of translation consensus early German Romanticism Copyright © 2003 Duke University Press 2003 ...

..., then indeterminacy of translation from one worldview to another.18 Among the most theoretically sophisticated contextualists, magical thinking about paradigm shifts and incommensurability is taken as compatible with the processes of working- through incommensurability, indeterminacy, and incoherence by way...

... the several books that he has edited or coedited are Christianity through Non-Christian Eyes, Japanese Buddhism, and The Realm of Awakening: A Translation and Study of Chapter Ten of Asanga’s “Mahayanasangraha.” which received the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Literary Criticism...

... and Society ; The Art of Conversation ; The French Historical Revolution ; and The Fabrication of Louis XIV , which have been translated into thirty-three languages. William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeritus of English at Stanford University. His books...

... Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing. Manfred Frank’s books have been translated into a dozen languages. His works in English translation include What Is Neostructuralism?, The Subject and the Text, and Reason and Its...

... of Correspondance avec Igor Strawinsky. Sasha Watson has translated and written on Joyce Mansour and is now coauthoring a book on Zukovsky and Apollinaire. Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Lit...

... of the Modern Language Associa- tion. Erica Johnson Debeljak is an American writer living in Slovenia. She contributes regularly to newspapers and intellectual journals in Slovenia and is the author of Tujka v hisˇi domacˇinov [Foreigner in the house of natives]. She recently translated Barren Harvest...

... and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene . David Bellos , an officer of the French National Order of Arts and Letters, is the Pyne Professor of French Literature and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where he founded and for many years directed the Program in Translation...

..., The Dustbin of History, and Ranters and Crowd Pleasers (published in Britain as In the Fascist Bathroom); Invisible Republic and Mys- tery Train were recently published in French translations. In 2000, he held the Anschutz Dis- tinguished Fellowship in American Studies at Princeton University. Eugene...

... Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Founder of the quarterly journal Social Epistemology , he has written some twenty-five books, which have been translated into thirty languages, including most recently Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game ; Nietzschean Meditations ; and The Player's...

... books in English translation include Superhip, Joli- punk: Coming of Age at the End of History. Vies pøtentielles, from which an excerpt is published in this issue of Common Knowledge, follows on from his book Le hêtre et le bouleau: Essai sur la tristesse européenne. Ann Jefferson, professor...

...Hans Blumenberg; Joe Paul Kroll; Hannes Bajohr Abstract This extract is the first English translation of Hans Blumenberg's posthumous publication Beschreibung des Menschen , which was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2006. Based on lectures concerning the German tradition of philosophical...

... of the metaphysical indeterminacy that Kant and other philosophers had associated with reality in its conceptually independent state (the an sich ). 12 The stress on vagueness radically shifted thinking about the noumenon (Kant's way of referring to this independent reality) from signifying a state of the world...