Quine, Structure, and Ontology
W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet recent work in these areas has become increasingly dismissive of his views. This is often because of mistaken or overly simplified conceptions of his philosophy which overlook the development of his views over time, in particular the growing importance of a kind of structuralism to his system as it evolved. This volume provides a fuller, richer picture of Quine's views and their development. With contributions from leading philosophers in a range of subfields including philosophical logic, philosophy of language, history of philosophy, mathematics, philosophy of time, and set theory, it is the first to investigate Quine's views on structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range of philosophical questions.
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Quine, Structure, and Ontology
W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet recent work in these areas has become increasingly dismissive of his views. This is often because of mistaken or overly simplified conceptions of his philosophy which overlook the development of his views over time, in particular the growing importance of a kind of structuralism to his system as it evolved. This volume provides a fuller, richer picture of Quine's views and their development. With contributions from leading philosophers in a range of subfields including philosophical logic, philosophy of language, history of philosophy, mathematics, philosophy of time, and set theory, it is the first to investigate Quine's views on structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range of philosophical questions.
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Quine, Structure, and Ontology

Quine, Structure, and Ontology

by Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Editor)
Quine, Structure, and Ontology
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Quine, Structure, and Ontology

Quine, Structure, and Ontology

by Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Editor)

Overview

W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet recent work in these areas has become increasingly dismissive of his views. This is often because of mistaken or overly simplified conceptions of his philosophy which overlook the development of his views over time, in particular the growing importance of a kind of structuralism to his system as it evolved. This volume provides a fuller, richer picture of Quine's views and their development. With contributions from leading philosophers in a range of subfields including philosophical logic, philosophy of language, history of philosophy, mathematics, philosophy of time, and set theory, it is the first to investigate Quine's views on structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range of philosophical questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780192609878
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 10/22/2020
Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 973 KB

About the Author

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specialising in philosophical logic and the history of analytic philosophy. She is co-translator of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (Cambridge 2018) and co-editor of Quine and His Place in History (Palgrave 2015). She has also published papers on Quine in Synthese and The Monist.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Frederique Janssen-Lauret: Introduction 
  • 2: Michael Resnik : Quines Non-ontological Structuralism (and Mine)
  • 3: Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride: W.V. Quine and David Lewis: Structural (Epistemological) Humility
  • 4: John Collins: Quine on Ontological Commitment in Light of Predicate-Functor Logic
  • 5: Jaroslav Peregrin: Inscrutability of Reference and Quines Structuralism
  • 6: Paul Gregory: Quines Deaationary Structuralism 
  • 7: Greg Frost-Arnold: The Ontogeny of Quines Ontology: Pythagoreanism, Nominalism, and the Role of Clarity
  • 8: Robert Sinclair: Quines Structural Holism and the Constitutive A Priori
  • 9: Gary Kemp and Andrew Lugg: Quine on Ontology: Chapter 7 of Word and Object
  • 10: Nathan Salmon: On What Exists
  • 11: Gila Sher: Quine vs. Quine 
  • 12: Marianna Antonutti Marfori: A New Look at Quine on Set Theory
  • 13: Natalja Deng: What Quine (and Carnap) Might Say About Contemporary Meta-physics of Time
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