Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed
1st Edition
Published on 24. May 2006
208 pages
978-1-4411-7363-8 (ISBN)
Description
Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. No serious student of modern analytic philosophy can afford to ignore Quine's work. Yet there is no doubt that it presents a considerable challenge. The book offers clear explication and analysis of Quine's writings and ideas in all those areas of philosophy to which he contributed (except technical matters in logic). Quine's work is set in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism. Detailed attention is paid to Word and Object, Quine's seminal text, and to his important theories on the nature of truth, knowledge and reality. This text presents an account of Quine's
philosophy as a unified whole, identifying and exploring the themes and approaches common to his seemingly disparate concerns, and showing this to be the key to understanding fully the work of this major modern thinker.
philosophy as a unified whole, identifying and exploring the themes and approaches common to his seemingly disparate concerns, and showing this to be the key to understanding fully the work of this major modern thinker.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7363-8 (9781441173638)
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Content
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Philosophy as Quine found it
2. Convention, Analyticity and Holism
3. The Indeterminacy of Translation
4. Naturalised Epistemology and the Roots of Reference
5. Truth, Ontology and the Language of Science
6. Extensionality and Abstract Ontology
7. Science, Philosophy and Common Sense
Bibliography
Abbreviations
1. Philosophy as Quine found it
2. Convention, Analyticity and Holism
3. The Indeterminacy of Translation
4. Naturalised Epistemology and the Roots of Reference
5. Truth, Ontology and the Language of Science
6. Extensionality and Abstract Ontology
7. Science, Philosophy and Common Sense
Bibliography
