On Quine: New EssaysProfessor of Philosophy Paolo Leonardi, Paolo Leonardi, Marco Santambrogio, Leonardi Paolo, International center of semiotic and cognitive studies (Saint-Marin) 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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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Pursuit of the Concept of Truth | 7 |
A View from Elm Street | 22 |
Quine on Exile and Acquiescence | 37 |
In What Sense Is Language Public? | 53 |
Against Naturalized Epistemology | 68 |
Quine on the Naturalizing of Epistemology | 89 |
Quine on Physical Objects | 104 |
Quine and the Attitudes | 186 |
Referential Opacity | 229 |
On Naming | 251 |
Mathematical Necessity Reconsidered | 267 |
Quotational Ambiguity | 283 |
Quine and Gödel on Analyticity | 297 |
On Quines Approach to Natural Deduction | 314 |
Skepticism about Semantic Facts | 336 |
The Place of Natural Language | 113 |
Quines Experiment with Intensional Objects | 140 |
Transparency and Specificity in Intentional | 164 |
Reactions | 347 |
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| Title | On Quine: New Essays |
| Editors | Professor of Philosophy Paolo Leonardi, Paolo Leonardi, Marco Santambrogio, Leonardi Paolo, International center of semiotic and cognitive studies (Saint-Marin) |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521470919, 9780521470919 |
| Length | 361 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / General Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern |
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