Contributor
Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, c1986.
Descriptionxvi, 705 p., [1] p. of plates : port. ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:All essays in part two are followed by a reply from Quine.
Note:Part One: Autobiography of W.V. Quine -- Part Two: DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF W.V. QUINE, WITH REPLIES: 1. Quine on meaning / William P. Alston -- 2. Quine on analyticity / Herbert G. Bohnert -- 3. Essentialism and reference / Dagfinn Føllesdal -- 4. An argument in favor of the Duhem-Quine thesis: from the structuralist point of view / Ulrich Gähde, Wolfgang Stegmüller -- 5. Tanslation, physics, and facts of the matter / Roger F. Gibson, Jr. -- 6. Nominalisms / Nelson Goodman -- 7. Quine's grammar / Gilbert Harman -- 8. Logical truth by linguistic convention / Geoffrey Hellman -- 9. Quine on who's who / Jaakko Hintikka -- 10. Opacity / David Kaplan -- 11. Discourse and event: the logician and reality / Harold N. Lee -- 12. Translational indeterminancy and the mind-body problem / Arnold B. Levinson -- 13. Experience, theory, and language / Robert Nozick -- 14. Quine on the philosophy of mathematics / Charles Parsons -- 15. Meaning holism / Hilary Putnam -- 16. Semantics without foundations / Paul A. Roth -- 17. Quine, Ajdukiewicz, and the predicament of 20th century philosophy / Henryk Skolimowski -- 18. Quine on space-time / J.J.C. Smart -- 19. Reference and its roots / P.F. Strawson -- 20. Quine's theory of knowledge / Manley Thompson -- 21. Quine and the field of mathematical logic / Joseph S. Ullian -- 22. On Duhem's and Quine's theses / Jules Vuillemin -- 23. Quine's logical ideas in historical perspective / Hao Want -- 24. Normative ethics, normative epistemology, and Quine's holism / Morton White -- PART THREE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF W.V. QUINE.
Bibliography Note:"A bibliography of the publications of W.V. Quine": p. [669]-686.
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