On Quine
Subtitle: New Essays
Contributors: Paolo Leonardi (Editor); Marco Santambrogio (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780521470919
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Quine, W. V; Philosophy Of The 20th Century; Philosophy; Quine, W. V.; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; Quine, W. V.--(Willard Van Orman); General; (Willard Van Orman)
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.