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
İçerik tablosu
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
Yazar hakkında
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.
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