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Title: From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays by Willard V. Quine ISBN: 0-674-32351-3 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth the cost for the first two essays alone.
Comment: This collection is worth the price simply for "On What There Is" and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" alone. "The Problem of Meaning in Linguistics" is a gem that (along with the last six essays) is too often overlooked, simply because it occurs after the above two (notorious) essays. If you do not own this book, then you cannot be someone who works in the contemporary, post-positivist philosophy of language.
Rating: 4
Summary: Metaphysics is dead! - long live the conceptual scheme!
Comment: With this book, Quine bursts onto the scene of analytical philosophy with claims the boldness and insight of which dealt a deadly strike to the orthodoxy of logical positivism. Being published for the first time in 1953, From a Logical Point of View followed hot on the heels of Wittgenstein's Philosophische Untersuchungen and although it's approach is quite different from that of Wittgestein's work, it has received less attention than P.U. Quine's arguments are transparent and yet very substancial in their claims. Better than anyone before or after him Quine realised that the rejection of traditional metaphysics has much graver consequences than it was imagined by the logical positivists. Quine tries to reconcile empiricism with metaphysics-criticism through a pragmatic view of the theory of reality. The result; - the conceptual scheme, is a fasinating and extremely controversial idea, but it has changed the face of metaphysics and epistemology forever. Long since philosophical classics, the essays "On What There Is" and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" are still the best and most readable expositions of the views, which saw Quine elavate theoretical philosophy to a level of thinking, of which it still benefits tremendously.
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Title: Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine ISBN: 0262670011 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1964 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Ontological Relativity by Willard Quine ISBN: 0231083572 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1977 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
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Title: Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke ISBN: 0674598466 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays by Willard Van Orman Quine ISBN: 0674948378 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Elizabeth Anscombe ISBN: 0631231277 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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