Quine in Dialogue

Willard Van Orman Quine

Published by Harvard University Press 2008

Quine in Dialogue

Willard Van Orman Quine
Edited by: Dagfinn Follesdal and Douglas Boynton Quine

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674278134

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About this book

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.

Reviews

Føllesdal and D. Quine have edited a superb collection of W. V. Quine's interviews, important articles, reviews, and comments on other philosophers such as Rudolf Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Donald Davidson, and P. F. Strawson. The unique theme of this handy volume is Quine's manner of engaging peers, critics, and students. The editors have chosen the pieces that make new points or expand upon his other writings; some of these have been unearthed recently in the Quine archive and are previously unpublished. The chapters reveal Quine's characteristic genius, wit, clarity of thought, and succinct prose.
-- L. B. McHenry Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Interviews
1 The Ideas of Quine Bryan Magee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 The Interview: Willard Van Orman Quine D. C. Denison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3 Quine Speaks His Mind: Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine Edo Pivcevic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
4 Philosophy Steven Vita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
5 W. V. Quine: Perspectives on Logic, Science, and Philosophy Bradley Edmister and Michael O’Shea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
6 Twentieth-Century Logic Giovanna Borradori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
7 Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine Lars Bergström and Dagfinn Føllesdal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
8 There Is Always a Further Step Olaf Brill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
II Quine on Other Philosophers
Correspondence
9 Logical Correspondence with Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Articles
10 Thoughts on Reading Father Owens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
11 Carnap’s Positivistic Travail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
12 Events and Reification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
13 Carnap Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
14 Charles Sanders Peirce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
15 Let Me Accentuate the Positive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
16 Exchange between Donald Davidson and W. V. Quine Following Davidson’s Lecture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
17 Foreword to Kurt Gödel, Unpublished Philosophical Essays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
18 Where Do We Disagree? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Reviews
19 Review of Rudolf Carnap’s Logische Syntax der Sprache Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
20 Probability Review of Harold Jeffreys’s Scientific Inference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
21 Review of Nelson Goodman’s Structure of Appearance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
22 Review of Peter Thomas Geach’s Reference and Generality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
23 Review of Imre Lakatos’s Proofs and Refutations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
24 Review of Derek Bickerton’s Roots of Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
25 Review of Charles Parsons’s Mathematics in Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
26 Four Hot Questions in Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Responses
27 Replies to Professor Riska’s Eight Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
28 Comments on Neil Tennant’s “Carnap and Quine” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
29 Responses to Articles by Abel, Bergström, Davidson, Dreben, Gibson, Hookway, and Prawitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
30 Reactions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
31 Responses to Essays by Smart, Orenstein, Lewis and Holdcroft, and Haack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
32 Response to Leemon McHenry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
33 Responses to Szubka, Lehrer, Bergström, Gibson, Miscevic, and Orenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
III Popular Pieces
34 Introducing Piaget Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
35 Mind/Body Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
36 Magna Carta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
37 On the Map Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
38 Charting the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
39 Words Enough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
40 Skinner Retirement Party Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
41 A Letter to Mr. Ostermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
42 Farewell Thanks at Villa Serbelloni, Italy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
43 Introducing Church Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
44 Introducing Dummett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
45 Introducing Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
46 Knights and Knaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
47 Introduction to Gail Caldwell Stine Memorial Lecture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
48 What I Believe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
49 Sticks and Stones; or, The Ins and Outs of Existence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
50 Introducing Kripke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
51 Jean van Heijenoort Memorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
52 Books That Mattered to Me Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
53 To a Graduate Student in Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
54 Life Is Agid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
55 Words Are All We Have to Go On (On Philosophers’ Concern with Language) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
56 Hobbling the Hawkers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
57 Introducing Shepard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
58 In Memory of John Finley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
59 Quine /zkwain/,Willard Van Orman (b. 1908) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
60 Acceptance Speech for Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
61 Tidy Parsimony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
62 Advice to the Next Generation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
63 Farewell to Me Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 392

eBook

Published: November 30, 2008
ISBN: 9780674278134