Quine in Dialogue / / W. V. Quine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Quine, W. V.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bergström, Lars,; Borradori, Giovanna,; Brill, Olaf,; Denison, D. C.,; Edmister, Bradley,; Føllesdal, Dagfinn,; Magee, Bryan,; O’Shea, Michael,; Pivcevic, Edo,; Vita, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

Over the course of his life, W. V. Quine, one of the twentieth century’s great philosophers, engaged and inspired, interviewed and critiqued countless scholars, critics, and students. The qualities that distinguished him in any discussion are on clear display in this volume, which features him in dialogue with his predecessors and peers, his critics and students. The volume begins with a number of interviews Quine gave about his perspectives on twentieth-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 Rudolf Carnap to P. F. Strawson. The book, which contains many previously unpublished manuscripts, concludes with a selection of small pieces, written for a broader public, that give a glimpse of the philosopher’s wide interests, his sense of humor, and his warm relations to friends. The result is a wide-ranging, in-depth, and finely nuanced portrait of the humanity underlying this great twentieth-century thinker’s philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Interviews -- 1 The Ideas of Quine -- 2 The Interview: Willard Van Orman Quine -- 3 Quine Speaks His Mind: Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine -- 4 Philosophy -- 5 W. V. Quine: Perspectives on Logic, Science, and Philosophy -- 6 Twentieth-Century Logic -- 7 Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine -- 8 There Is Always a Further Step -- II Quine on Other Philosophers -- Correspondence -- 9 Logical Correspondence with Russell -- Articles -- 10 Thoughts on Reading Father Owens -- 11 Carnap’s Positivistic Travail -- 12 Events and Reification -- 13 Carnap -- 14 Charles Sanders Peirce -- 15 Let Me Accentuate the Positive -- 16 Exchange between Donald Davidson and W. V. Quine Following Davidson’s Lecture -- 17 Foreword to Kurt Gödel, Unpublished Philosophical Essays -- 18 Where Do We Disagree? -- Reviews -- 19 Review of Rudolf Carnap’s Logische Syntax der Sprache -- 20 Probability Review of Harold Jeffreys’s Scientific Inference -- 21 Review of Nelson Goodman’s Structure of Appearance -- 22 Review of Peter Thomas Geach’s Reference and Generality -- 23 Review of Imre Lakatos’s Proofs and Refutations -- 24 Review of Derek Bickerton’s Roots of Language -- 25 Review of Charles Parsons’s Mathematics in Philosophy -- 26 Four Hot Questions in Philosophy -- Responses -- 27 Replies to Professor Riska’s Eight Questions -- 28 Comments on Neil Tennant’s “Carnap and Quine” -- 29 Responses to Articles by Abel, Bergström, Davidson, Dreben, Gibson, Hookway, and Prawitz -- 30 Reactions -- 31 Responses to Essays by Smart, Orenstein, Lewis and Holdcroft, and Haack -- 32 Response to Leemon McHenry -- 33 Responses to Szubka, Lehrer, Bergström, Gibson, Miscevic, and Orenstein -- III Popular Pieces -- 34 Introducing Piaget -- 35 Mind/Body Problem -- 36 Magna Carta -- 37 On the Map -- 38 Charting the World -- 39 Words Enough -- 40 Skinner Retirement Party -- 41 A Letter to Mr. Ostermann -- 42 Farewell Thanks at Villa Serbelloni, Italy -- 43 Introducing Church -- 44 Introducing Dummett -- 45 Introducing Campbell -- 46 Knights and Knaves -- 47 Introduction to Gail Caldwell Stine Memorial Lecture -- 48 What I Believe -- 49 Sticks and Stones; or, The Ins and Outs of Existence -- 50 Introducing Kripke -- 51 Jean van Heijenoort Memorial -- 52 Books That Mattered to Me -- 53 To a Graduate Student in Philosophy -- 54 Life Is Agid -- 55 Words Are All We Have to Go On (On Philosophers’ Concern with Language) -- 56 Hobbling the Hawkers -- 57 Introducing Shepard -- 58 In Memory of John Finley -- 59 Quine /zkwain/,Willard Van Orman (b. 1908) -- 60 Acceptance Speech for Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences -- 61 Tidy Parsimony -- 62 Advice to the Next Generation -- 63 Farewell to Me -- Credits -- Index