The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, Volume 18

by Lewis Edwin Hahn (Editor), Lewis Edwin Hahn, Willard Van Orman Quine (Photographer)

This volume on Quine includes 25 critical essays by contemporary philosophers such as William P.Alston, Ulrich Gahde, Geoffrey Hellman, Hao Wang and Charles Parsons and Quine's answers to these critics. The text also includes a bibliography of Quine's works and discusses his views on the philosophy of logic, methodology, logical theory, theory of language, ontology and epistemology and a biographical essay.

Genres: Philosophy

800 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Michael Norwitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series was a well-conceived one: to choose some of the more important 20th century philosophers, have a selection of writers comment on their work (pro or con), and have the philosophers themselves reply in kind.

WV Quine was one of the clearest writers and deep thinkers of the era, and this volume is often heady stuff, not for the novice (admittedly, some of the more technical articles were over my head). But overall the book is a pleasure to read, and Quine's mini-essay responses are invariably clever and articulate.