Alex Orenstein's Williard Van Orman Quine is a good, readable digest of philosopher-logician W.V. Quine's thought. What was amazing about this man is his constant attempt to explain the world in terms of fewer and fewer entities, and his commitment to a scientific-empiricist perspective. Some of his key positions are false. For example, he assumed that language acquisition was essentially a matter of stimulus and response with an innate mechanism to realize similarities perceptually and linguist More...