Quine in Dialogue

W. V. Quine

Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal

Edited by Douglas B. Quine

    • Introduction

      I. Interviews

    1. The Ideas of Quine (1978)
    2. Willard Van Orman Quine (1985)
    3. Quine Speaks His Mind (1988)
    4. Philosophy (1993)
    5. W. V. Quine: Perspectives on Logic, Science and Philosophy (1994)
    6. Twentieth-Century Logic (1994)
    7. Interview with Quine (1994)
    8. There Is Always a Further Step (1998)

      9. II. Quine on Other Philosophers

      Correspondence

    9. Logical Correspondence with Russell (1937–1967)

      10. Articles on Other Philosophers

    10. Thoughts on Reading Father Owens (1967)
    11. Carnap’s Positivistic Travail (1984)
    12. Events and Reification (1985)
    13. Carnap (1987)
    14. Charles Sanders Peirce (1989)
    15. Let Me Accentuate the Positive (1990)
    16. Exchange between Davidson and Quine (1994)
    17. Foreword in Kurt Gödel (1994)
    18. Where Do We Disagree? (1999)

      19. Reviews

    19. Review of Rudolf Carnap’s Logische Syntax der Sprache (1935)
    20. Review of Jeffreys’ Scientific Inference (1937)
    21. Review of Goodman’s Structure of Appearance (1951)
    22. Review of Geach’s Reference and Generality (1964)
    23. Review of Lakatos’ Proofs and Refutations (1977)
    24. Review of Bickerton, Roots of Language (1983)
    25. Review of Parsons’ Mathematics in Philosophy (1984)
    26. Four Hot Questions in Philosophy: PF. Strawson. Skepticism & Naturalism (1985)

      27. Responses

    27. Replies to Professor Riska’s Eight Questions (1992)
    28. Comment on “Carnap and Quine by Neil Tennant (1994)
    29. Responses (1994)
    30. Reactions (1995)
    31. Responses to seven essays (1997)
    32. Response to Leemon McHenry (1997)
    33. Quine’s responses (1999)

      34. III. Popular Pieces

    34. Introducing Piaget (1960)
    35. Mind-Body Problem (1963)
    36. Magna Carta (1963)
    37. On the Map (1964)
    38. Charting the World (1965)
    39. Words Enough (1969)
    40. Skinner Retirement Party (1974)
    41. A Letter to Mr. Ostermann (1975)
    42. Farewell Thanks at Villa Serbelloni, Italy (1975)
    43. Introducing Church (1975)
    44. Introducing Dummett (1976)
    45. Introducing Campbell (1977)
    46. Knights and Knaves on: Smullyan. What is the Name of this Book? (1978)
    47. Gail Caldwell Stine Memorial Lecture (1980)
    48. What I Believe (1984)
    49. Sticks and Stones; or, the Ins and Outs of Existence (1984)
    50. Introducing Kripke (1984)
    51. Van Heijenort Memorial (1986)
    52. Books That Mattered to Me (1986)
    53. To a Graduate Student in Philosophy (1988)
    54. Life is agid (1988)
    55. Philosopher’s Concern with Language (Words Are All We Have to Go On) (1992)
    56. Hobbling the Hawkers (1992)
    57. Introducing Shepard (1994)
    58. In Memory of John Finley (1995)
    59. Willard Van Orman Quine in “Dictionary of Philosophy” (1996)
    60. Kyoto Acceptance Speech (1996)
    61. Tidy Parsimony (1996)
    62. Advice to the Next Generation (2002)
    63. Farewell to Me (1978)
    • Credits
    • Index
  • Cover: Quine in Dialogue
  • 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.