- Preface by Roger F. Gibson, Jr.
- I. Analyticity and Reductionism
- 1. Truth by Convention
- 2. Two Dogmas of Empiricism
- 3. Two Dogmas in Retrospect
- 4. Carnap and Logical Truth
- II. Indeterminacy and Inscrutability
- 5. Speaking of Objects
- 6. Reference
- 7. Translation and Meaning
- 8. Progress on Two Fronts
- 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
- 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
- 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
Quintessence
Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine
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Publication Date: 04/30/2008
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