Ways of Paradox and Other Essays

Revised and Enlarged Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 1976

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This expanded edition of The Ways of Paradox includes papers that are among Professor W. V. Quine’s most important and influential, such as “Truth by Convention,” “Carnap and Logical Truth,” “On Carnap’s Views on Ontology,” “The Scope and Language of Science,” and “Posits and Reality.” Many of these essays deal with unresolved issues of central interest to philosophers today. About half of them are addressed to “a wider public than philosophers.” The remainder are somewhat more professional and technical. This new edition of The Ways of Paradox contains eight essays that appeared after publication of the first edition, and it retains the seminal essays that must be read by anyone who seeks to master Quine’s philosophy.Quine has been characterized, in The New York Review of Books, as “the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank.” His “philosophical innovations add up to a coherent theory of knowledge which he has for the most part constructed single-handed.” In The Ways of Paradox new generations of readers will gain access to this philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1976-01-01
Mått140 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
Upplaga2
FörlagHarvard University Press
ISBN9780674948372

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1. The Ways of Paradox (1961) 2. On a Supposed Antinomy (1952) 3. Foundations of Mathematics (1964) 4. On the Application of Modern Logic (1960) 5. Homage to Rudolf Carnap (1970) 6. Logic as a Source of Syntactical Insights (1960) 7. Vagaries of Definition (1972) 8. Linguistics and Philosophy (1968) 9. The Limits of Knowledge (1972) 10. Necessary Truth (1963) 11. Truth by Convention (1935) 12. Carnap and Logical Truth (1954) 13. Implicit Definition Sustained (1964) 14. Mr. Strawson on Logical Theory (1953) 15. Three Grades of Modal Involvement (1953) 16. Reply to Professor Marcus (1962) 17. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1955) 18. A Logistical Approach to the Ontological Problem (1939) 19. On Carnap's Views on Ontology (1951) 20. Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers (1964) 21. On Mental Entities (1952) 22. The Scope and Language of Science (1954) 23. Posits and Reality (1955) 24. On Simple Theories of a Complex World (1960) 25. On Multiplying Entities (1966-74) 26. Ontological Remarks on the Propositional Calculus (1934) 27. The Variable (1972) 28. Algebraic Logic and Predicate Functors (1970) 29. Truth and Disquotation (1970) References Index

[Quine] is at once the most elegant expounder of systematic logic in the older, pre-Gödelian style of Frege and Russell, the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank… The title essay of Quine’s The Ways of Paradox is a beautifully concise survey of the nature and significance of paradoxes… In general Quine’s style combines a certain rotundity of utterance with a verbal wit that exploits the submerged associations and resonances of technical terms.