This volume on Quine includes 25 critical essays by contemporary philosophers such as William P.Alston, Ulrich Gahde, Geoffrey Hellman, Hao Wang and Charles Parsons and Quine's answers to these critics. The text also includes a bibliography of Quine's works and discusses his views on the philosophy of logic, methodology, logical theory, theory of language, ontology and epistemology and a biographical essay.
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This volume on Quine includes 25 critical essays by contemporary philosophers such as William P.Alston, Ulrich Gahde, Geoffrey Hellman, Hao Wang and Charles Parsons and Quine's answers to these critics. The text also includes a bibliography of Quine's works and discusses his views on the philosophy of logic, methodology, logical theory, theory of language, ontology and epistemology and a biographical essay.
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VG-/VG-(ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, front and rear end pages, pages are otherwise clean. ) Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; bw illustrated dust jacket with blue lettering, mylar cover; xvi, 705 pp; bw portrait frontispiece. Contents: Part 1. Autobiography of W.V. Quine--Part 2. Descriptive and critical essays on the philosophy of W.V. Quine, with replies [by Quine]--1. Quine on meaning / William P. Alston--2. Quine on analyticity / Herbert G. Bohnert--3. Essentialism and reference / Dagfinn Føllesdal--4. An argument in favor of the Duhem-Quine thesis: from the structuralist point of view / Ulrich Gähde and Wolfgang Stegmüller--5. Translation, physics, and facts of the matter / Roger F. Gibson, Jr. --6. Nominalisms / Nelson Goodman--7. Quine's grammar / Gilbert Harman--8. Logical truth by linguistic convention / Geoffrey Hellman--9. Quine on who's who / Jaakko Hintikka--10. Opacity / David Kaplan--11. Discourse and event: the logician and reality / Harold N. Lee--12. Translational indeterminacy and the mind-body problem / Arnold B. Levison--13. Experience, theory, and language / Robert Nozick--14. Quine on the philosophy of mathematics / Charles Parsons--15. Meaning holism / Hilary Putnam--16. Semantics without foundations / Paul A. Roth--17. Quine, Ajdukiewicz, and the predicament of 20th century philosophy / Henryk Skolimowski--18. Quine on space-time / J.J.C. Smart--19. Reference and its roots / P.F. Strawson--20. Quine's theory of knowledge / Manley Thompson--21. Quine and the field of mathematical logic / Joseph S. Ullian--22. On Duhem's and Quine's theses / Jules Vuillemin--23. Quine's logical ideas in historical perspective / Hao Wang--24. Normative ethics, normative epistemology, and Quine's holism / Morton White--Part 3. A bibliography of the publications of W.V. Quine.
