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W.V.O.Quine

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W.V.O.Quine

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W.V.O.Quine

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W.V.O.Quine book

ByAlex Orenstein
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2002
eBook Published 23 December 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315710754
Pages 256
eBook ISBN 9781315710754
Subjects Humanities
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Orenstein, A. (2002). W.V.O.Quine (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315710754

ABSTRACT

The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world. His rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, his scepticism about modal logic and essentialism, his celebrated theme of the indeterminacy of translation, and his advocacy of naturalism have challenged key assumptions of the prevailing orthodoxy and helped shape the development of much of recent philosophy. This introduction to Quine's philosophical ideas provides philosophers, students and generalists with an authoritative analysis of his lasting contributions to philosophy. Quine's ideas throughout are contrasted with more traditional views, as well as with contemporaries such as Frege, Russell, Carnap, Davidson, Field, Kripke and Chomsky, enabling the reader to grasp a clear sense of the place of Quine's views in twentieth-century philosophy and the important criticisms of them.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|28 pages

Expressing an ontology

chapter 3|36 pages

Deciding on an ontology

chapter 4|20 pages

The spectre of a priori knowledge

chapter 5|24 pages

The nature of logic

chapter 6|30 pages

Analyticity and indeterminacy

chapter 7|24 pages

Intensional contexts

chapter 8|18 pages

Nature, know thyself

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