Quine in dialogue / W.V. Quine ; edited by Dagfinn Føllesdal, Douglas B. Quine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)

Contributor:

Føllesdal, Dagfinn.

Quine, Douglas B., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman).

Philosophy.

Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)--Interviews.

Quine, W. V.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

x, 378 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Contents:

I Interviews

1 The Ideas of Quine (1978) / Bryan Magee 5

2 The Interview: Willard Van Orman Quine (1985) / D. C. Denison 18

3 Quine Speaks His Mind: Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine (1988) / Edo Pivcevic 21

4 Philosophy (1993) / Steven Vita 30

5 W. V. Quine: Perspectives on Logic, Science, and Philosophy (1994) / Bradley Edmister, Michael O'Shea 43

6 Twentieth-Century Logic (1994) / Giovanna Borradori 57

7 Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine (1994) / Lars Bergstrom, Dagfinn Follesdal 69

8 There Is Always a Further Step (1998) / Olaf Brill 82

II Quine on Other Philosophers

Correspondence

9 Logical Correspondence with Russell (1937-1967) 103

Articles

10 Thoughts on Reading Father Owens (1967) 115

11 Carnap's Positivistic Travail (1984) 119

12 Events and Reification (1985) 129

13 Carnap (1987) 142

14 Charles Sanders Peirce (1989) 146

15 Let Me Accentuate the Positive (1990) 149

16 Exchange between Donald Davidson and W.V. Quine Following Davidson's Lecture (1994) 152

17 Foreword to Kurt Godel, Unpublished Philosophical Essays (1994) 157

18 Where Do We Disagree? (1999) 159

19 Review of Rudolf Carnap's Logische Syntax der Sprache (1935) 169

20 Probability. Review of Harold Jeffreys's Scientific Inference (1937) 173

21 Review of Nelson Goodman's Structure of Appearance (1951) 176

22 Review of Peter Thomas Geach's Reference and Generality (1964) 184

23 Review of Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations (1977) 189

24 Review of Derek Bickerton's Roots of Language (1983) 192

25 Review of Charles Parsons's Mathematics in Philosophy (1984) 194

26 Four Hot Questions in Philosophy. Review of P. F. Strawson's Skepticism and Naturalism (1985) 206

Responses

27 Replies to Professor Riska's Eight Questions (1992) 213

28 Comments on Neil Tennant's "Carnap and Quine" (1994) 216

29 Responses to Articles by Abel, Bergstrom, Davidson, Dreben, Gibson, Hookway, and Prawitz (1994) 223

30 Reactions (1995) 235

31 Responses to Essays by Smart, Orenstein, Lewis and Holdcroft, and Haack (1997) 251

32 Response to Leemon McHenry (1997) 257

33 Responses to Szubka, Lehrer, Bergstrom, Gibson, Miscevic, and Orenstein (1999) 259

III Popular Pieces

34 Introducing Piaget (1960) 271

35 Mind/Body Problem (1963) 273

36 Magna Carta (1963) 275

37 On the Map (1964) 278

38 Charting the World (1965) 280

39 Words Enough (1969) 285

40 Skinner Retirement Party (1974) 291

41 A Letter to Mr. Ostermann (1975) 293

42 Farewell Thanks at Villa Serbelloni, Italy (1975) 297

43 Introducing Church (1975) 298

44 Introducing Dummett (1976) 300

45 Introducing Campbell (1977) 301

46 Knights and Knaves. Review of Smullyan's What Is the Name of This Book? (1978) 303

47 Introduction to Gail Caldwell Stine Memorial Lecture (1980) 306

48 What I Believe (1984) 307

49 Sticks and Stones; or, The Ins and Outs of Existence (1984) 312

50 Introducing Kripke (1984) 325

51 Jean van Heijenoort Memorial (1986) 327

52 Books That Mattered to Me (1986) 328

53 To a Graduate Student in Philosophy (1988) 330

54 Life Is Agid (1988) 333

55 Words Are All We Have to Go On (On Philosophers' Concern with Language) (1992) 334

56 Hobbling the Hawkers (1992) 340

57 Introducing Shepard (1994) 342

58 In Memory of John Finley (1995) 344

59 Quine /'kwain/, Willard Van Orman (b. 1908) (1996) 346

60 Acceptance Speech for Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences (1996) 349

61 Tidy Parsimony (1996) 351

62 Advice to the Next Generation (2002) 358

63 Farewell to Me (1978) 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674030831

0674030834

OCLC:

214064518