Quine, Structure, and Ontology

by Janssen-Lauret, Frederique

• ISBN13: 9780191896446
• ISBN10: 0191896446
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2020-07-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Frederique Janssen-Lauret, University of Manchester

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specialising in philosophical logic and the history of analytic philosophy. She is co-translator of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (Cambridge 2018) and co-editor of Quine and His Place in History (Palgrave 2015). She has also published papers on Quine in Synthese and The Monist.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction?, Frederique Janssen-Lauret
2. Quines Non-ontological Structuralism (and Mine), Michael?Resnik?
3. W.V. Quine and David Lewis: Structural (Epistemological) Humility, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride
4. Quine on Ontological Commitment in Light of Predicate-Functor Logic, John Collins
5. Inscrutability of Reference and Quines Structuralism, Jaroslav Peregrin
6. Quines Deaationary Structuralism?, Paul Gregory
7. The Ontogeny of Quines Ontology: Pythagoreanism, Nominalism, and the Role of Clarity, Greg Frost-Arnold
8. Quines Structural Holism and the Constitutive A Priori, Robert Sinclair
9. Quine on Ontology: Chapter 7 of Word and Object, Gary Kemp and Andrew Lugg
10. On What Exists, Nathan Salmon
11. Quine vs. Quine?, Gila Sher
12. A New Look at Quine on Set Theory, Marianna Antonutti Marfori
13. What Quine (and Carnap) Might Say About Contemporary Meta-physics of Time, Natalja Deng