Quine and His Place in History [electronic resource] /
Kemp, Gary.editor.
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique.editor.
Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.
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Cover ; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Quine and His Place in History; Part I Previously Unpublished Papers by W.V. Quine; 1 Introduction to 'Levels of Abstraction'; 2 Levels of Abstraction (1972); 3 Introduction to 'Preestablished Harmony' and 'Response to Gary Ebbs'; 4 Preestablished Harmony (1995); 5 Response to Gary Ebbs (1995); Part II Quine's Contact with the Unity of Science Movement: A Glimpse of His Friendship with Ed Haskell; 6 Observations on the Contribution of W.V. Quine to Unified Science Theory
Part III Quine's Connection with Pragmatism7 The Web and the Tree: Quine and James on the Growth of Knowledge; 8 On Quine's Debt to Pragmatism: C.I. Lewis and the Pragmatic A Priori; Part IV Understanding Quine; 9 Quine's Philosophies of Language; 10 Reading Quine's Claim That No Statement Is Immune to Revision; 11 Meta-Ontology, Naturalism, and the Quine-Barcan Marcus Debate; 12 Underdetermination, Realism, and Transcendental Metaphysics in Quine; 13 Quine, Wittgenstein and 'The Abyss of the Transcendental'; Appendix; Scan of Quine's Original 'Pre-Established Harmony'
Scan of Quine's Original 'Reply to Gary Ebbs'Index
Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.
Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)
Analysis (Philosophy).
Philosophy and science.
Language and languages-Philosophy.
Modern philosophy.
Pragmatism.
Epistemology.
Analytic Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of Language.
Modern Philosophy.
Pragmatism.
Epistemology.