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The Philosophy of W.V. Quine
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For over 30 years, Willard Van Orman Quine has been a dominant figure in logical theory and philosophy of logic. His innovations in notions and techniques have been momentous, and his clear, elegant expositions have set new standards. In addition to his technical work in logic, he has stirred up hornets' nests in methodology, theory of language, epistemology, and ontology. His distinctive brand of pragmatic naturalism has helped blur the boundaries between speculative metaphysics and natural science, and provoked fruitful debates on such topics as the analytic-synthetic dichotomy, synonymy and its explication, meaning holism and the underdetermination of theory by particular experiences, the inscrutability of reference, and indeterminacy of translation.
Autobiography of W.V. Quine
(replies follow essays)
William
P. Alston: Quine on Meaning
Herbert G. Bohnert:
Quine
on Analyticity
Dagfinn Follesdal:
Essentialism and
Reference
Ulrich Gähde/Wolfgang Stegmüller:
An
Argument in Favor of the Duhem- Quine Thesis: From the Structuralist
Point of View
Roger F. Gibson, Jr.:
Translation, Physics,
and Facts of the Matter
Nelson Goodman:
Nominalisms
Gilbert Harman: Quine's Grammar
Geoffrey Hellman: Logical Truth by Linguistic Convention
Jaakko Hintikka: Quine on Who's Who
David Kaplan: Opacity
Harold N.
Lee: Discourse and Event: The Logician and Reality
Arnold
B. Levison: Translational Indeterminacy and the Mind-Body Problem
Robert Nozick: Experience, Theory, and Language
Charles
Parsons: Quine on the Philosophy of Mathematics
Hilary
Putnam: Meaning Holism
Paul A. Roth:
Semantics without
Foundations
Henryk Skolimowski: Quine, Ajdukiewicz, and
the Predicament of 20th Century Philosophy
J.J.C. Smart:
Quine on Space-Time
P.F. Strawson:
Reference and Its Roots
Manley Thompson: Quine's Theory of Knowledge
Joseph
S. Ullian: Quine and the Field of Mathematical Logic
Jules
Vuillemin: On Duhem's and Quine's Theses
Hao Wang: Quine's Logical Ideas in Historical Perspective
Morton White: Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine's Holism
Bibliography of the Writings of W.V. Quine
Index by S.S. Rama
Rao Pappu
*The following essays are included only in the expanded edition (1998):
Roger F. Gibson: Quine's Philosophy: A Brief Sketch
John Woods: A Captious Nicety of Argument
The expanded edition also includes an additional 12 pages of autobiography, submitted by Quine to cover the years 1978-1997, as well as an updated bibliography.
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