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Word and Object, new edition

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262518317
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Word and Object, new edition written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Quine's most important work. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what Churchland calls the "phony precision" of conceptual analysis. In the course of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.

Quintessence

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674027558
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Quintessence written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap. Influenced by Russell and especially by Carnap, another towering figure, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908Ð2000) emerged as the most important proponent of analytic philosophy during the second half of the century. Yet with twenty-three books and countless articles to his creditÑincluding, most famously, Word and Object and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"ÑQuine remained a philosopher's philosopher, largely unknown to the general public. Quintessence for the first time collects Quine's classic essays (such as "Two Dogmas" and "On What There Is") in one volumeÑand thus offers readers a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. Divided into six parts, the thirty-five selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced.

The Significance of the New Logic

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316836320
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Significance of the New Logic written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Quine would go on to develop revolutionary ideas about semantic holism and ontology, and this book provides a snapshot of his views on logic and language at a pivotal stage of his intellectual development. The volume also includes an essay on logic which Quine also published in Portuguese, together with an extensive historical-philosophical essay by Frederique Janssen-Lauret. The valuable and previously neglected works first translated in this volume will be essential for scholars of twentieth-century philosophy.

Philosophy of Logic, 2nd Edition

Author : W. V. QUINE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042441
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Logic, 2nd Edition written by W. V. QUINE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar--but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible extensions of logic, Quine argues that logic is not a mere matter of words.

Theories and Things

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674879263
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Theories and Things written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the most recent writings, some of them unpublished, of the preeminent philosopher of our time. Quine is always, whatever his subject, an elegant writer, witty, precise, and forceful. Admirers of his earlier books will welcome this new volume.

ELEMENTARY LOGIC REV ED P

Author : W. V. QUINE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042492
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book ELEMENTARY LOGIC REV ED P written by W. V. QUINE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now much revised since its first appearance in 1941, this book, despite its brevity, is notable for its scope and rigor. It provides a single strand of simple techniques for the central business of modern logic. Basic formal concepts are explained, the paraphrasing of words into symbols is treated at some length, and a testing procedure is given for truth-function logic along with a complete proof procedure for the logic of quantifiers. Fully one third of this revised edition is new, and presents a nearly complete turnover in crucial techniques of testing and proving, some change of notation, and some updating of terminology. The study is intended primarily as a convenient encapsulation of minimum essentials, but concludes by giving brief glimpses of further matters.

The Web of Belief

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Web of Belief written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1978 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Web of Belief provides a philosophical base for the study and practice of the art of argumentation. Stressing the importance of language in understanding and expressing ideas, the authors explore such questions as: What concepts do we believe to be true and why? And how can we convince others to accept our own beliefs? Drawing on everyday problems of communication, creative exercises give the student practice in formulating and testing his own arguments, as well as those of others. --

Ontological Relativity and Other Essays

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231083577
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Ontological Relativity and Other Essays written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by W. V. Quine in Word and Objects, the essays included herein are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge.

From a Logical Point of View

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674323513
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book From a Logical Point of View written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980-05-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays has a unity and bears throughout the imprint of Quine's powerful and original mind. It is written with the felicity in the choice of words which makes everything that Quine writes a pleasure to read, and which ranks him among the best contemporary writers on abstract subjects.

W.V.O.Quine

Author : Alex Orenstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317489896
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book W.V.O.Quine written by Alex Orenstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Selected Logic Papers

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674798366
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Selected Logic Papers written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two generations, W. V. Quine has contributed fundamentally to the substance, the pedagogy, and the philosophy of mathematical logic. Selected Logic Papers, long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author's important work on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics from the past sixty years.

Pursuit of Truth

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674739505
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of Truth written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge?'The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega ofthe scientific enterprise. Notions like "idea" and "meaning" are vague, but a sentence-now there's something you can sink your teeth into. Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. Rich, lively chapters dissect his major concerns-evidence, reference, meaning, intension, and truth. "Some points;' he writes, "have become clearer in my mind in the eight years since Theories and Things. Some that were already clear in my mind have become clearer on paper. And there are some that have meanwhile undergone substantive change for the better." This is a key book for understanding the effort that a major philosopher has made a large part of his life's work: to naturalize epistemology in the twentieth century. The book is concise and elegantly written, as one would expect, and does not assume the reader's previous acquaintance with Quine's writings. Throughout, it is marked by Quine's wit and economy of style.

Methods of Logic

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674571761
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Methods of Logic written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely used textbook of modern formal logic now offers a number of new features. Incorporating updated notations, selective answers to exercises, expanded treatment of natural deduction, and new discussions of predicate-functor logic and the affinities between higher set theory and the elementary logic of terms, W. V. Quine's new edition will serve admirably for both classroom and independent use.

Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674030848
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays by : Willard Van Orman Quine

Download or read book Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine’s prodigious career.

Quine in Dialogue

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674030831
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Quine in Dialogue written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quine was one of the 20th century’s great philosophers. This volume begins with a number of interviews Quine gave about his perspectives on 20th-century logic, science and philosophy, the ideas of others, and philosophy generally. Also included are his most important articles, reviews, and comments on other philosophers, from Carnap to Strawson.

A System of Logistic

Author : W. V. Quine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674431652
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book A System of Logistic written by W. V. Quine and published by . This book was released on 1934-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quiddities

Author : W. V. QUINE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042433
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Quiddities written by W. V. QUINE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appellation polymath is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine's areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates. Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than eighty topics, each providing a full measure of piquant thought, wordplay, and wisdom, couched in easy and elegant prose--Quine at his unbuttoned best, in Donald Davidson's words. Philosophy, language, and mathematics are the subjects most fully represented; tides of entries include belief, communication, free will, idiotisms, longitude and latitude, marks, prizes, Latin pronunciation, tolerance, trinity. Even the more technical entries are larded with homely lore, anecdote, and whimsical humor. Quiddities will be a treat for admirers of Quine and for others who like to think, who care about language, and who enjoy the free play of intellect on topics large and small. For this select audience, it is an ideal book for browsing.