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Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Quine, W V --- Quine, W. V. --- Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen --- קואיין, ו. ו. א.

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Philosophy, American --- Logic, Modern --- Philosophie américaine --- Logique moderne --- Quine, W. V. --- Quine, W V --- Philosophers --- Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Philosophie américaine --- Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen --- קואיין, ו. ו. א. --- Philosophers - United States - Biography

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Quine's set theory, New Foundations, has often been treated as an anomaly in the history and philosophy of set theory. In this book, Sean Morris shows that it is in fact well-motivated, emerging in a natural way from the early development of set theory. Morris introduces and explores the notion of set theory as explication: the view that there is no single correct axiomatization of set theory, but rather that the various axiomatizations all serve to explicate the notion of set and are judged largely according to pragmatic criteria. Morris also brings out the important interplay between New Foundations, Quine's philosophy of set theory, and his philosophy more generally. We see that his early technical work in logic foreshadows his later famed naturalism, with his philosophy of set theory playing a crucial role in his primary philosophical project of clarifying our conceptual scheme and specifically its logical and mathematical components.

Set theory. --- Aggregates --- Classes (Mathematics) --- Ensembles (Mathematics) --- Mathematical sets --- Sets (Mathematics) --- Theory of sets --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Mathematics --- Quine, W. V. --- Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen --- קואיין, ו. ו. א.

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Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Philosophers --- Biography --- Quine, W V --- -Scholars --- Quine, W. V. --- -Biography --- Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen --- קואיין, ו. ו. א. --- Philosophers - United States - Biography --- Quine, Willard Van Orman, 1908 --- -Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908-2000) --- Philosophes --- Critique et interprétation --- États-Unis --- Biographies --- Philosophers. --- United States.

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Willard Van Orman Quine's work revolutionized the fields of epistemology, semantics and ontology. At the heart of his philosophy are several interconnected doctrines: his rejection of conventionalism and of the linguistic doctrine of logical and mathematical truth, his rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, his thesis of the indeterminacy of translation and his thesis of the inscrutability of reference. In this book Edward Becker sets out to interpret and explain these doctrines. He offers detailed analyses of the relevant texts, discusses Quine's views on meaning, reference and knowledge, and shows how Quine's views developed over the years. He also proposes a new version of the linguistic doctrine of logical truth, and a new way of rehabilitating analyticity. His rich exploration of Quine's thought will interest all those seeking to understand and evaluate the work of one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Metaphysics --- Theory of knowledge --- Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Mind & Body. --- Quine, W. V. --- Analysis (Philosophy). --- Philosophy --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Analysis, Linguistic (Philosophy) --- Analysis, Logical --- Analysis, Philosophical --- Analytic philosophy --- Analytical philosophy --- Linguistic analysis (Philosophy) --- Logical analysis --- Philosophical analysis --- Philosophy, Analytical --- Kuaĭn, Uillard van Ormen --- קואיין, ו. ו. א. --- Language and languages --- Methodology --- Logical positivism --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Arts and Humanities