The Significance of the New Logic

First full English translation of the Portuguese-language works of W. V. Quine, one of the most influential twentieth-century American philosophers.

Willard Van Orman Quine (Author), Walter Carnielli (Edited and translated by), Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Edited and translated by), William Pickering (Edited and translated by)

9781316631164, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 November 2020

216 pages
15 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg

'… of great value to … researchers and students studying logic in the analytic tradition of philosophy in the United States.' Jason Wakefield, Grammar Language and Linguistics

W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Quine would go on to develop revolutionary ideas about semantic holism and ontology, and this book provides a snapshot of his views on logic and language at a pivotal stage of his intellectual development. The volume also includes an essay on logic which Quine also published in Portuguese, together with an extensive historical-philosophical essay by Frederique Janssen-Lauret. The valuable and previously neglected works first translated in this volume will be essential for scholars of twentieth-century philosophy.

Editors' introduction Walter Carnielli, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and William Pickering
W. V. O. Quine's philosophical development in the 1930s and 1940s Frederique Janssen-Lauret
The Significance of the New Logic W. V. O. Quine
Appendix. The United States and the revival of logic W. V. O. Quine.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL], Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism [HPCF5]