2000, ISBN: 9780812690101

1975. [Cambridge, Mass. and other locations, c. 1975 - c. 1995. Octavo. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket Original Stapled Offprints etc. [The Library of Living Philosophers Vo… Mehr…

1975. [Cambridge, Mass. and other locations, c. 1975 - c. 1995. Octavo. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket Original Stapled Offprints etc. [The Library of Living Philosophers Volume XVIII]. Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van") was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continually affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of logic and set theory, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978. A recent poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries. He won the first Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 1993 for "his systematical and penetrating discussions of how learning of language and communication are based on socially available evidence and of the consequences of this for theories on knowledge and linguistic meaning." In 1996 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his "outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of language." Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not conceptual analysis but the abstract branch of the empirical sciences. His major writings include "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951), which attacked the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and Word and Object (1960), which further developed these positions and introduced Quine's famous indeterminacy of translation thesis, advocating a behaviorist theory of meaning. He also developed an influential naturalized epistemology that tried to provide "an improved scientific explanation of how we have developed elaborate scientific theories on the basis of meager sensory input." He is also important in philosophy of science for his "systematic attempt to understand science from within the resources of science itself" and for his conception of philosophy as continuous with science. This led to his famous quip that "philosophy of science is philosophy enough." In philosophy of mathematics, he and his Harvard colleague Hilary Putnam developed the "Quine–Putnam indispensability thesis," an argument for the reality of mathematical entities. (Wikipedia), 1975, 0<

1986, ISBN: 0812690109

[EAN: 9780812690101], [PU: Open Court, La Salle, Illinois], BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; QUINE, W.V., Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; bw illustrated dust jacket with blue lette… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780812690101], [PU: Open Court, La Salle, Illinois], BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; QUINE, W.V., Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; bw illustrated dust jacket with blue lettering, mylar cover; xvi, 705 pp; bw portrait frontispiece. Contents: Part 1. Autobiography of W.V. Quine -- Part 2. Descriptive and critical essays on the philosophy of W.V. Quine, with replies [by Quine] -- 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 and Wolfgang Stegmüller -- 5. Translation, 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 indeterminacy and the mind-body problem / Arnold B. Levison -- 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 Wang -- 24. Normative ethics, normative epistemology, and Quine's holism / Morton White -- Part 3. A bibliography of the publications of W.V. Quine. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, front and rear end pages, pages are otherwise clean.), Books<