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"Some Pow'r did us the giftie grant/ To see oursels as others can't." With that play on Burns' famous line as a preface, Willard Van Orman Quine sets out to spin the yarn of his life so far. And it is a gift indeed to see one of the world's most famous philosophers as no one else has seen him before. To catch an intimate glimpse of his seminal and controversial theories of philosophy, logic, and language as they evolved, and to hear his warm and often amusing comments on famous contemporary philosophers.
From his beginnings in Akron, Ohio in the early 1900s, Quine takes us on a tour of over 100 countries over three-quarters of a century, including close observations of the Depression and two world wars. Far from a philosophical tract, it is an ebullient, folksy account of a richly varied and rounded life. When he does dip into philosophy, it is generally of the armchair sort, and laced with a gentle good humor: "There is that which one wants to do for the glory of having done it, and there is that which one wants to do for the joy of doing it. One can want to be a scientist because he wants to see himself as a Darwin or an Einstein, and one can want to be a scientist because he is curious about what makes things tick .... In normal cases the two kinds of motivation are in time brought to terms .... In me the glory motive lingered ......
In this book, Quine approaches the details of his life the way he has always approached them with a sharp sense of interest, adventure and fun. And he has a skill for picking a word that is just off-center enough to pull an ordinary event out of the humdrum of daily life and evoke its personal meaning. The result is a book of memories that is utterly mesmerizing.
Willard Van Orman Quine is the author of numerous books, including Word and Object, published by The MIT Press in 1960.
A Bradford Book.
"Some Pow'r did us the giftie grant/ To see oursels as others can't." With that play on Burns' famous line as a preface, Willard Van Orman Quine sets out to spin the yarn of his life so far. And it is a gift indeed to see one of the world's most famous philosophers as no one else has seen him before. To catch an intimate glimpse of his seminal and controversial theories of philosophy, logic, and language as they evolved, and to hear his warm and often amusing comments on famous contemporary philosophers.
From his beginnings in Akron, Ohio in the early 1900s, Quine takes us on a tour of over 100 countries over three-quarters of a century, including close observations of the Depression and two world wars. Far from a philosophical tract, it is an ebullient, folksy account of a richly varied and rounded life. When he does dip into philosophy, it is generally of the armchair sort, and laced with a gentle good humor: "There is that which one wants to do for the glory of having done it, and there is that which one wants to do for the joy of doing it. One can want to be a scientist because he wants to see himself as a Darwin or an Einstein, and one can want to be a scientist because he is curious about what makes things tick .... In normal cases the two kinds of motivation are in time brought to terms .... In me the glory motive lingered ......
In this book, Quine approaches the details of his life the way he has always approached them with a sharp sense of interest, adventure and fun. And he has a skill for picking a word that is just off-center enough to pull an ordinary event out of the humdrum of daily life and evoke its personal meaning. The result is a book of memories that is utterly mesmerizing.
Willard Van Orman Quine is the author of numerous books, including Word and Object, published by The MIT Press in 1960.
A Bradford Book.
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1908 My birth in a modest frame house on Nash Street in a southeast-central quarter of Akron on Anti-Christmas, June 25, 1908, brought the population of that industrial city to a figure in the neighborhood of sixty thousand. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Bare Hill, Orchard Road, Mexico City, Society of Fellows, Ellan Vannin, Don Davidson, Sao Paulo, Ann Arbor, Methods of Logic, Beacon Hill, Eliot House, Fred Cassidy, John Cooley, Hawthorne Avenue, Hong Kong, New England, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Junior Fellows, Los Angeles, Charlie Bill, Eastman Professor, Freddie Ayer, Gilbert Ryle, Lake Erie New!
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1908 My birth in a modest frame house on Nash Street in a southeast-central quarter of Akron on Anti-Christmas, June 25, 1908, brought the population of that industrial city to a figure in the neighborhood of sixty thousand. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
portage path, capital village Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bare Hill, Orchard Road, Mexico City, Society of Fellows, Ellan Vannin, Don Davidson, Sao Paulo, Ann Arbor, Methods of Logic, Beacon Hill, Eliot House, Fred Cassidy, John Cooley, Hawthorne Avenue, Hong Kong, New England, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Junior Fellows, Los Angeles, Charlie Bill, Eastman Professor, Freddie Ayer, Gilbert Ryle, Lake Erie New!
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- Men of Ideas by Bryan Magee on page 442, page 445, and page 464
- The Web of Belief by W. V. Quine on page 339, page 342, and page 443
- An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books) by A. N. Whitehead on page 39
- Ontological Relativity by Professor W. V. Quine on page 443
- Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell on page 38
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- Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy) by Urszula Zeglen in Back Matter
- Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy) by Jon Elster on page 43
- Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger by Bruce Kuklick on page 61
- Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy) by Jon Elster on page 43
- German Philosophy since Kant (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements) by Anthony O'Hear on page 95
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