Quine and His Place in History

by Janssen-lauret, Frederique; Kemp, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781137472502
• ISBN10: 1137472502
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Quine and His Place in History contains three previously unpublished posthumous papers by W.V. Quine: his 1972 address to the Congress on Unified Science which was thought to have been lost, and two short papers developing his Pursuit of Truth position in response to Ebbs' review and revealing the usually covert influence of Dreben. It further contains eight historical, exegetical, and critical papers by Quine scholars from across the world: Ben-Menahem on pragmatism, Ebbs on analyticity, Hylton on philosophy of language, Janssen-Lauret on meta-ontology, Kemp on realism, Lugg on Quine and Wittgenstein, Sinclair on Quine and C.I. Lewis, and Lodge, Leary, and D. Quine on W.V. Quine and the Unity of Science movement.

Author Biography

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Campinas, Brazil, working on philosophy of logic and history of analytic philosophy. She received her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2014 and has authored several papers on Quine and meta-ontology.

Gary Kemp is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of several papers on Quine (and on Davidson, Frege, and Russell), and the books Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference and Meaning and Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PAPERS BY W.V. QUINE
1. Introduction to 'Levels of Abstraction'; Douglas Quine
2. Levels of Abstraction (1972); W.V. Quine
3. Introduction to Two Previously Unpublished Papers by W. V. Quine; Gary Ebbs
4. Preestablished Harmony (1995); W.V. Quine
5. Response to Gary Ebbs (1995); W.V. Quine
Part II: QUINE'S CONTACT WITH THE UNITY OF SCIENCE MOVEMENT: A GLIMPSE OF HIS FRIENSHIP WITH ED HASKELL
6. Observations on the Contribution of W. V. Quine to Unified Science Theory; Ann Lodge, Rolfe Leary and Douglas Quine
Part III: QUINE'S CONNECTION WITH PRAGMATISM
7. The Web and the Tree: Quine and James on the Growth of Knowledge; Yemima Ben-Menahem
8. On Quine's Debt to Pragmatism: C.I. Lewis and the Pragmatic A Priori; Robert Sinclair
Part III: UNDERSTANDING QUINE
9. Quine's Philosophies of Language; Peter Hylton
10. Reading Quine's Claim That No Statement Is Immune to Revision; Gary Ebbs
11. Meta-Ontology, Naturalism, and the Quine-Barcan Marcus Debate; Frederique Janssen-Lauret
12. Underdetermination, Realism, and Transcendental Metaphysics in Quine; Gary Kemp
13. Quine, Wittgenstein and 'the Abyss of the Transcendental'; Andrew Lugg