Perspectives on Quine

Download or read book Perspectives on Quine written by Robert Barrett and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-10-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Quine, now available in paperback, is a collection of twenty-one new essays dealing with the thought of America's most distinguished living philosopher, Willard Van Orman Quine. After the editors' brief introduction to Quine's thought, the volume opens with an important new essay by Quine entitled Three Indeterminacies. The essays that follow, written by leading philosophers, are rich with insights into a wide variety of Quine's concerns ranging from logic and set theory to natural language, truth, evidence, natural kinds, naturalized epistemology, and much more. Each essay concludes with a summary and response from Quine himself.