On Quine
New Essays

A collection of essays which critically evaluate the writings of Quine.

Paolo Leonardi (Edited by), Marco Santambrogio (Edited by)

9780521041515, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 September 2007

372 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.55 kg

"The volume should be of special interest to philosohers of language, philosophers of mind, logicians, philosophers of mathematics and epistemologists as well as to anyone curious about Quine's philosophy." Mathematical reviews clippings 98h

Quine is one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers, whose work has ranged broadly across a great number of topics and issues in a career spanning some fifty years. In this collection a group of distinguished philosophers offer a sustained critical evaluation of the full range of Quine's writings. Amongst the topics addressed are interpretation, epistemology, ontology, modality, and mathematical truth. This collection will certainly influence all future discussion of Quine. The contributors include: George Boolos, H-N. Castaneda, Donald Davidson, Umberto Eco, Dagfinn Follesdal, James Higginbotham, Charles Parsons, Hilary Putnam, Barry Stroud, and Bas van Fraassen. However, Quine is given the last word, responding to the essays in the final contribution.

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction Paolo Leonardi and Marco Santambrogio
1. Pursuit of the concept of truth Donald Davidson
2. A view from Elm Street Umberto Eco
3. Quine on exile and acquiescence Barry Stroud
4. In what sense is language public? Dagfinn Føllesdal
5. Against naturalized epistemology Bas C. Van Fraassen
6. Quine on the naturalizing of epistemology Roger Gibson
7. Quine on physical objects Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia
8. The place of natural language James Higginbotham
9. Quine's experiment with intensional objects and his existentialist quantified modal logic Hector-Neri Castañeda
10. Transparency and specificity in intentional contexts Andrea Bonomi
11. Quine and the attitudes Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer
12. Relational belief Nathan Salmon
13. Referential opacity Fabrizio Mondadori
14. On naming Paolo Leonardi and Ernesto Napoli
15. Mathematical necessity reconsidered Hilary Putnam
16. Quotational ambiguity George Boolos
17. Quine and Gödel on analyticity Charles Parsons
18. On Quine's approach to natural deduction Carlo Cellucci
19. Skepticism about semantic facts Dirk Koppelberg
20. Reactions W. V. Quine.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]