The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Revised Edition
by W. V. Quine
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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W. V. Quine is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University
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- This book first appeared in 1966, embracing twenty-one essays. Three of them dated from the thirties, nine from 1951-1955, and nine from 1960-1964. Eight more are now added, all of later vintage. (Author's Preface)
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- A philosopher of ordinary language has brought his limpid vernacular to bear on formal logic. Step by unhurried step he explains the terms of logical appraisal and what the logician's business is, and sets the logician's arti... (show all)facts over against the speech of natural man. (From Mr Strawson on Logical Theory)
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