Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays

W. V. Quine

Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal

Edited by Douglas B. Quine

    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction

      I. Previously Unpublished Articles

    1. Nominalism (1946)
    2. On the Notion of an Analytic Statement (1946)
    3. Lectures on David Hume’s Philosophy (1946)
    4. The Importance of Logic for Philosophy (1947)
    5. Where is Logic Going? (1947)
    6. Animadversions on the Notion of Meaning (1949)
    7. The Entangled Philosophies of Mathematics (1950)
    8. Meaning (1959)
    9. The Way The World Is (1986)
    10. Pressing Extensionality (1992)
    11. Innate Foundational Endowments (1996)
    12. The Growth of Mind and Language (1997)

      13. II. Previously Published Articles

    13. Relations and Reason (1939)
    14. On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation (1970)
    15. Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory (1970)
    16. On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World (1975)
    17. Mind and Verbal Dispositions (1975)
    18. The Nature of Natural Knowledge (1975)
    19. Facts of the Matter (1977)
    20. Cognitive Meaning (1979)
    21. Grammar, Truth, and Logic (1980)
    22. Ontology and Ideology Revisited (1983)
    23. Relativism and Absolutism (1984)
    24. States of Mind (1985)
    25. The Sensory Support of Science (1986)
    26. Panel on Reference (1986)
    27. Indeterminacy of Translation Again (1987)
    28. Mind, Brain, and Behavior (1989)
    29. The Elusiveness of Reference (1990)
    30. The Phoneme’s Long Shadow (1990)
    31. Three Indeterminacies (1990)
    32. Preface to The Logic of Sequences (1990)
    33. Two Dogmas in Retrospect (1991)
    34. Structure and Nature (1992)
    35. Commensurability and the Alien Mind (1992)
    36. In Praise of Observation Sentences (1993)
    37. Truth (1994)
    38. Promoting Extensionality (1994)
    39. Indeterminacy Without Tears (1994)
    40. Assuming Objects (1994)
    41. Naturalism; Or, Living within One’s Means (1995)
    42. Progress on Two Fronts (1996)
    43. The Flowering of Thought in Language (1997)
    44. I, You, and It: an Epistemological Triangle (1999)
    45. Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership (2000)
    46. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist (2001)
    • Credits
    • Index
  • Cover: Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays
  • A photo of the author

photo of Dagfinn Follesdal

W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.

Dagfinn Føllesdal is C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University.

Douglas B. Quine has collected his father’s manuscripts and notes and organized the web site that gives access to this information: www.wvquine.org.