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From a Logical Point of View
Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
Häftad, 1980
315 kr
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These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide …
Methods of Logic
Fourth Edition
Häftad, 1982
372 kr
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This widely used textbook of modern formal logic now offers a number of new features. Incorporating updated notations, selective answers to exercises, expanded treatment of natural deduction, and new discussions of predicate-functor logic and the affinities between higher set theory and the …
Mathematical Logic
Revised Edition
Häftad, 1982
418 kr
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W. V. Quine’s systematic development of mathematical logic has been widely praised for the new material presented and for the clarity of its exposition. This revised edition, in which the minor inconsistencies observed since its first publication have been eliminated, will be welcomed by all …
Quiddities
An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary
Häftad, 1989
373 kr
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The appellation “polymath” is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine’s areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates.Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than …
Word and Object, new edition
E-bok, 2013
597 kr
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A new edition of Quine''s most important work. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword …
Quintessence
Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine
Av Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson Jr.
Häftad, 2008
313 kr
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Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap. Influenced by Russell and especially by Carnap, another towering figure, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) emerged as the most important proponent of analytic philosophy during …
Quine in Dialogue
Av Willard Van Orman Quine, Dagfinn Follesdal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
601 kr
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Over the course of his life, W. V. Quine, one of the twentieth century’s great philosophers, engaged and inspired, interviewed and critiqued countless scholars, critics, and students. The qualities that distinguished him in any discussion are on clear display in this volume, which features him in …
Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays
Av Willard Van Orman Quine, Dagfinn Follesdal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
658 kr
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W. V. Quine created a new way of looking at the eternal questions of philosophy and their interconnections. His investigations into semantics and epistemology, ontology and causality, natural kinds, time, space, and individuation transformed the philosophical landscape for generations to come. In …
Elementary Logic
Revised Edition
Häftad, 1980
327 kr
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Much revised since its first appearance in 1941, Willard Van Orman Quine’s Elementary Logic, despite its brevity, is notable for its scope and rigor. It provides a single strand of simple techniques for the central business of modern logic. Basic formal concepts are explained, the paraphrasing of …
From Stimulus to Science
Häftad, 1998
418 kr
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W. V. Quine is one of the most eminent philosophers alive today. Now in his mid-eighties he has produced a sharp, sprightly book that encapsulates the whole of his philosophical enterprise, including his thinking on all the key components of his epistemological stance--especially the value of logic …
Philosophy of Logic
Second Edition
Häftad, 1986
288 kr
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With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar—but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible …
Pursuit of Truth
Revised Edition
Häftad, 1992
361 kr
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In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of …
Selected Logic Papers
Enlarged Edition
Häftad, 1995
406 kr
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For more than two generations, W. V. Quine has contributed fundamentally to the substance, the pedagogy, and the philosophy of mathematical logic. Selected Logic Papers, long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author’s important work on mathematical …
Set Theory and Its Logic
Revised Edition
Häftad, 1971
373 kr
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This is an extensively revised edition of W. V. Quine’s introduction to abstract set theory and to various axiomatic systematizations of the subject. The treatment of ordinal numbers has been strengthened and much simplified, especially in the theory of transfinite recursions, by adding an axiom …
Theories and Things
Häftad, 1986
406 kr
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Here are the most recent writings, some of them unpublished, of the preeminent philosopher of our time. Philosophical reflections on language are brought to bear upon metaphysical and epistemological questions such as these: What does it mean to assume objects, concrete and abstract? How do such …
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Häftad, 1976
381 kr
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This expanded edition of The Ways of Paradox includes papers that are among Professor W. V. Quine’s most important and influential, such as “Truth by Convention,” “Carnap and Logical Truth,” “On Carnap’s Views on Ontology,” “The Scope and Language of Science,” and “Posits and Reality.” Many of …
The Significance of the New Logic
Av Willard Van Orman Quine, Walter Carnielli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1420 kr
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W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. …
The Significance of the New Logic
Av Willard Van Orman Quine, Walter Carnielli
Häftad, 2020
445 kr
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W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. …
Significance of the New Logic
E-bok, 2018
440 kr
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W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. …
Significance of the New Logic
E-bok, 2018
440 kr
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W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. …
