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Quine, W. V. - (Willard Van Orman Quine)kwīn, 1908–2000, American philosopher and mathematical logician, b. Akron, Ohio, grad. Oberlin, 1930. He studied at Harvard (Ph.D., 1932) under Alfred North Whitehead and in Europe, where he was influenced by Rudolf Carnap. He taught at Harvard (1936–78), becoming Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy there in 1955. Much of Quine's


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    The Roots of Reference » Read Now

    by W. V. Quine. 168 pgs.

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    Word and Object » Read Now

    by Willard Van Orman Quine. 314 pgs.

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    Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion...
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    The Philosophy of W. V. Quine: An Expository Essay » Read Now

    by Roger F. Gibson Jr. 218 pgs.

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    ...The Philosophy of W. V. Quine Wiiard Van Orman Quine The Philosophy of W. V. Quine An Expository Essay Roger F. Gibson Jr. with a foreword by W. V. Quine A University of...
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    The Philosophy of W. V. Quine » Read Now

    by Lewis Edwin Hahn, Paul Arthur Schilpp. 712 pgs.

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    ...THE PHILOSOPHY OF W. V. QUINE THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS...1984 THE PHILOSOPHY OF W. V. QUINE 1986 THE PHILOSOPHY...International. THE PHILOSOPHY OF W. V. QUINE...
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    Enlightened Empiricism: An Examination of W. V. Quine's Theory of Knowledge » Read Now

    by Roger F. Gibson Jr. 196 pgs.

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    ...strength of his position. -- W. V. Quine, The Roots of Reference ENLIGHTENED...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Quine, W. V. Willard Van Orman --Contributions...Roger...
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    The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, Macintyre, and Kuhn » Read Now

    by Rosanna Crocitto, Giovanna Borradori. 180 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's The American Scholar, this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the...
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    Language and Ontology (Chap. 4 "Quine on Ontological Commitment") » Read Now

    by Jack Kaminsky. 292 pgs.

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    ...than the criterion specified by W. V. 0. Quine.For Quine any expression can be...to what it is that they refer. W. V. 0. Quine is a philosopher who has sought...of terms...
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    The Nature of Necessity ("Quine's Objection to Quantified Modal Logic" begins on p. 222) » Read Now

    by Alvin Plantinga. 258 pgs.

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    This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties...
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    Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism (Chap. 8 "James, Quine, and Analytic Pragmatism") » Read Now

    by Robert Hollinger, David Depew. 348 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    American pragmatism can be best understood against the background of 20th-century American culture and politics. The essays in this volume, by philosophers, cultural critics, and historians, explore the development of pragmatism in this context. The emphasis in this volume is on the interrelations...
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    Pragmatism: From Peirce to Davidson (Chap. Seven "Pragmatic versus Positivistic Empiricism") » Read Now

    by John P. Murphy. 152 pgs.

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    ...quotations in Chapter 7 from W. V. Quine, "The Pragmatists Place in Empiricism...quotations in Chapter 7 from W. V. Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other...1969 ...
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    Modalities: Philosophical Essays (Chap. 14 "A Backward Look at Quine's Animadversions of Modalites") » Read Now

    by Ruth Barcan Marcus. 288 pgs.

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    Based on her earlier ground-breaking axiomatization of quantified modal logic, the papers collected here by the distinguished philosopher Ruth Barcan Marcus cover much ground in the development of her thought, spanning from 1961 to 1990. The first essay here introduces themes initially viewed as...
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    Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology ("Quine" begins on p. 52) » Read Now

    by Stewart Shapiro. 296 pgs.

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    This unique text by Stewart Shapiro looks at a range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics in four comprehensive sections. The first describes questions and issues about mathematics that have motivated philosophers almost since the beginning of intellectual history. Part II is...
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    A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (Chap. Ten "Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology") » Read Now

    by Louise M. Antony, Charlotte Witt. 302 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...Scheman 145 9 Resurrecting Embodiment: Toward a Feminist Materialism, Robin May Schott 171 10 Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology, Louise M...

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