Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine

D. Davidson, Jaakko Hintikka

Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Philosophy - 373 pages

It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T.

Contents

• PREFACE: 1
• GILBERT HARMAN An Introduction to Translation: 14
• ERIK STENIUS Beginning with Ordinary Things: 27
• NOAM CHOMSKY Quines Empirical Assumptions: 53
• JAAKKO HINTIKKA Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation: 69
• BARRY STROUD Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy: 82
• P F STRAWSON Singular Terms and Predication: 97
• H P GRICE Vacuous Names: 118
• P T GEACH Quines Syntactical Insights: 146
• DONALD DAVIDSON On Saying That: 158
• DAGFINN FØLLESDAL Quine on Modality: 175
• WILFRID SELLARS Some Problems about Belief: 186
• DAVID KAPLAN Quantifying In: 206
• GEORGE BERRY Logic with Platonism: 243
• RONALD BJÖRN JENSEN On the Consistency of a Slight: 278
• QUINE Replies: 292
• PUBLICATIONS OF W V QUINE: 353

About the author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine; Volume 21 of Synthese Library
• Editors: D. Davidson, Jaakko Hintikka
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
• ISBN: 9401017093, 9789401017091
• Length: 373 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Language; Philosophy / Logic; Philosophy / Reference