Gilbert Harman & Ernest Lepore 
A Companion to W. V. O. Quine [PDF ebook] 

This Companion brings together a team of leading figures in
contemporary philosophy to provide an in-depth exposition and
analysis of Quine’s extensive influence across
philosophy’s many subfields, highlighting the breadth of his
work, and revealing his continued significance today.

* Provides an in-depth account and analysis of W.V.O.
Quine’s contribution to American Philosophy, and his position
as one of the late twentieth-century’s most influential
analytic philosophers

* Brings together newly-commissioned essays by leading figures
within contemporary philosophy

* Covers Quine’s work across philosophy of logic,
philosophy of language, ontology and metaphysics, epistemology, and
more

* Explores his work in relation to the origins of analytic
philosophy in America, and to the history of philosophy more
broadly

* Highlights the breadth of Quine’s work across the
discipline, and demonstrates the continuing influence of his work
within the philosophical community

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Life and Work 1

Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore

Part I Method 15

1 Quine and Epistemology 17

Thomas Kelly

2 Quine and the A Priori 38

Lars Bergström

3 Quine and Pragmatism 54

Peter Godfrey-Smith

4 Quine’s Relationship with Analytic Philosophy 69

Gary Kemp

5 Quine on Paraphrase and Regimentation 89

Adam Sennet and Tyrus Fisher

6 Quine’s Naturalism 114

Alan Weir

7 Quine’s Naturalism Revisited 148

Peter Hylton

Part II Language 163

8 Inscrutability Scrutinized 165

Alex Orenstein

9 Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction 181

Gillian Russell

10 Quine, Analyticity, and Transcendence 203

Ernie Lepore

11 Indeterminacy, Relativity, and Behaviorism 219

Gilbert Harman

12 Indeterminacy of Translation 236

Peter Pagin

13 Developments in Quine’s Behaviorism 263

Dagfinn Føllesdal

Part III Logic, Mathematics, Science 279

14 Quine’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 281

John P. Burgess

15 Bolzano, Quine, and Logical Truth 296

Sandra Lapointe

16 Quine on Observationality 313

Olav Gjelsvik

17 Observation 333

Bredo C. Johnsen

18 Quine on Evidence 350

Robert Sinclair

19 Quine on Reference and Quantification 373

Michael Glanzberg

Part IV Relation to Other Philosophers 401

20 Quine and Russell 403

Gary Ostertag

21 The Place of Quine in Analytic Philosophy 432

Scott Soames

22 Quine’s Naturalistic Explication of Carnap’s Logic of Science
465

Gary Ebbs

23 Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of Language 483

Barry C. Smith

24 Quine’s Conception of Explication – and Why It Isn’t
Carnap’s 508

Martin Gustafsson

25 The Relation between Quine and Davidson 526

Hans-Johann Glock

26 Quine and the Revival of Metaphysics 552

Gideon Rosen

Name Index 571

Subject Index 576

Über den Autor

Gilbert Harman is James S. Mc Donnell Distinguished
University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He has
written broadly about W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, and much of
his research shows Quine’s influence, including
Thought (1973), Change in View (1986) and
Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind (1999). He is also editor of
Semantics of Natural Language (with Donald Davidson, 1970)
and The Logic of Grammar (1975).
Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive
scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center
for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is
the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned on Itself
(2007). He is editor of The Oxford Handbook of
Philosophy of Language (with Barry C. Smith, 2006) and general
editor of the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophers and Their
Critics.