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Quine and His Place in History
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Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this v...
Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.
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- edited by Gary Kemp, Frederique Janssen-Lauret
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed. 2016
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781137472519, 1137472510, 1349570354, 1137472502
- Description based upon print version of record.
- English
- Cover ; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Quine and His Place in History; Part I Previously Unpublished Papers by W.V. Quine; 1 Introduction to 'Levels of Abstraction'; 2 Levels of Abstraction (1972); 3 Introduction to 'Preestablished Harmony' and 'Response to Gary Ebbs'; 4 Preestablished Harmony (1995); 5 Response to Gary Ebbs (1995); Part II Quine's Contact with the Unity of Science Movement: A Glimpse of His Friendship with Ed Haskell; 6 Observations on the Contribution of W.V. Quine to Unified Science Theory
- Part III Quine's Connection with Pragmatism7 The Web and the Tree: Quine and James on the Growth of Knowledge; 8 On Quine's Debt to Pragmatism: C.I. Lewis and the Pragmatic A Priori; Part IV Understanding Quine; 9 Quine's Philosophies of Language; 10 Reading Quine's Claim That No Statement Is Immune to Revision; 11 Meta-Ontology, Naturalism, and the Quine-Barcan Marcus Debate; 12 Underdetermination, Realism, and Transcendental Metaphysics in Quine; 13 Quine, Wittgenstein and 'The Abyss of the Transcendental'; Appendix; Scan of Quine's Original 'Pre-Established Harmony'
- Scan of Quine's Original 'Reply to Gary Ebbs'Index