W.V.O. Quine is one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers, whose work has ranged broadly across a great number of topics and issues in a career spanning some fifty years. In this collection a group of distinguished philosophers offers a sustained critical evaluation of the full range of Quine's writings. Among the topics addressed are interpretation, epistemology, ontology, modality, and mathematical truth. This is very much a "state of the art" collection that will influence all future discussion of Quine.
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"...is a valuable and important volume....of high quality papers which has much to offer both students of Quine's work and others interested in central topics of recent analytical philosophy." Review of Metaphysics
"The volume should be of special interest to philosohers of language, philosophers of mind, logicians, philosophers of mathematics and epistemologists as well as to anyone curious about Quine's philosophy." Mathematical reviews clippings 98h
"The volume should be of special interest to philosohers of language, philosophers of mind, logicians, philosophers of mathematics and epistemologists as well as to anyone curious about Quine's philosophy." Mathematical reviews clippings 98h
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W.V.O. Quine is one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers, whose work has ranged broadly across a great number of topics and issues in a career spanning some fifty years. In this collection a group of distinguished philosophers offer a sustained critical evaluation of the full range of Quinets writings. Amongst the topics addressed are interpretation, epistemology, ontology, modality, and mathematical truth. This is very much a QUOTE state of the art UNQUOTE collection that will influence all future discussion of Quine.The contributors include: George Boolos, H-N Castaneda, Donald Davidson, Umberto Eco, Dagfinn Follesdal, James Higginbotham, Charles Parsons, Hilary Putnam, Barry Stroud, and Bas van Frassen. However, Quine is given the last word , responding to the essays in the final contribution.
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The important figures in the history of philosophy have almost always had both a strong negative and a strong positive agendum: They have seen, and made clear to all, what was wrong with ideas importantly current at the time, and they have proposed brilliant and intriguing alternatives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Harvard University Press, New York, Oxford University Press, Pursuit of Truth, Queen Isabella, Basil Blackwell, The Ways of Paradox, The Journal of Philosophy, Collected Works, Logical Point of View, Open Court, Donald Davidson, Intensions Revisited, San Marino, Hilary Putnam, The Roots of Reference, City Hall, Peg-Will Center, Bradford Book, Cambridge University Press, Elm Street, Philosophical Papers, Clark Kent, Dalla Chiara, Random House New!
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The important figures in the history of philosophy have almost always had both a strong negative and a strong positive agendum: They have seen, and made clear to all, what was wrong with ideas importantly current at the time, and they have proposed brilliant and intriguing alternatives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
existential specification rule, applying existential generalization, internal construal, nec greater, quantified modality, samesay relation, modal philosophers, external construal, paratactic account, neural intake, ordered pair theorem, sensory hits, flounders snore, monadic account, unregenerate realism, natural deduction calculus, naturalized empiricism, scientific practices argument, affirmative stimulus meaning, sequent natural deduction, purely referential position, natural deduction calculi, doxastic assumption, ingenious permutation, relational belief Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harvard University Press, New York, Oxford University Press, Pursuit of Truth, Queen Isabella, Basil Blackwell, The Ways of Paradox, The Journal of Philosophy, Collected Works, Logical Point of View, Open Court, Donald Davidson, Intensions Revisited, San Marino, Hilary Putnam, The Roots of Reference, City Hall, Peg-Will Center, Bradford Book, Cambridge University Press, Elm Street, Philosophical Papers, Clark Kent, Dalla Chiara, Random House New!
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- Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine on 41 pages
- From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition by W. V. Quine on 13 pages
- The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Revised Edition by W. V. Quine on 12 pages
- The Roots of Reference (Paul Carus Lectures) by Willard V. Quine on 11 pages
- Theories and Things by W. V. Quine on 11 pages
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- W. V. Quine (Philosophy Now) by Alex Orenstein on 5 pages
- Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy by Dale Jacquette on 4 pages
- Naturalism and Ethics : Philosophy of Quine, Volume 2 by Dagfinn Follesdal in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Suksmadvaita: An Interpretation of Advaita Vedanta and Madhyamika Buddhism by M.A. Cherian on page 3, page 67, and Back Matter
- Feminist Interpretations of W.V. Quine by Lynn Hankinson Nelson on page 303, page 304, and page 305
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