Quintessence

Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine

W. V. Quine

Edited by Roger F. Gibson, Jr.

    Part I. Analyticity and Reductionism

    1. Truth by Convention

    2. Two Dogmas of Empiricism

    3. Two Dogmas in Retrospect

    4. Carnap and Logical Truth

    Part II. Indeterminacy and Inscrutability

    5. Speaking of Objects

    6. Reference

    7. Translation and Meaning

    8. Progress on Two Fronts

    Part III. Ontology

    9. On What There Is

    10. The Scope and Language of Science

    11. On Simple Theories of a Complex World

    12. Ontic Decision

    13. Things and Their Place in Theories

    14. On Carnap's Views on Ontology

    Part IV. Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

    15. Epistemology Naturalized

    16. Naturalism; or, Living within One's Means

    17. The Nature of Natural Knowledge

    18. Five Milestones of Empiricism

    19. On Mental Entities

    20. Mind and Verbal Dispositions

    Part V. Extensionalism

    21. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist

    22. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes

    23. Intensions Revisited

    24. Reference and Modality

    25. Three Grades of Modal Involvement

    Credits

    Index

  • Cover: Quintessence

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

Roger F. Gibson, Jr., is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Quine and coeditor of Perspectives on Quine.