On Quine
Subtitle: New Essays
Contributors: Paolo Leonardi (Editor); Marco Santambrogio (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521041515
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Modern; Quine, W. V.--(Willard Van Orman); General; Philosophy
First sentence: The important figures in the history of philosophy have almost always had both a strong negative and a strong positive agendum: They have seen, and made clear to all, what was wrong with ideas importantly current at the time, and they have proposed brilliant and intriguing alternatives.