Ontological Relativity and Other Essays / Edition 1

by W. V. Quine

Overview

This volume consists of the first of the John Dewey Lectures delivered under the auspices of Columbia University's Philosophy Department as well as other essays by the author. Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by Professor Quine in Word and Objects, the essays included herin both support and expand those doctrines. All are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge.

-The book.... is written with Quine's usual incisiveness. He has a style which is very well adapted to the display of his philosophical qualities: a happy combination of technical expertise, inventivenesss and wit. -Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231083577
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/22/1969
Series:	The John Dewey Essays in Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	165
Product dimensions:	5.14(w) x 7.94(h) x 0.47(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael J. Green is the Japan Chair and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University. He has served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. His publications include Japan's Reluctant Realism and Arming Japan.

Bates Gill is the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He previously held the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies and the inaugural director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy.

Table of Contents

Speaking of Objects
Ontological Relativity
Epistemology Naturalized
Natural Kinds
Propositional Objects