The Development of Quine's Philosophy
This book covers W. V. Quine's philosophic career from his early radical empiricism and behaviorism through his development of a series of skeptical doctrines regarding meaning, reference, and science. It explains what problems he tried to solve and what
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BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University JÜRGEN RENN, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science KOSTAS GAVROGLU, University of Athens
Managing Editor LINDY DIVARCI, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Editorial Board THEODORE ARABATZIS, University of Athens ALISA BOKULICH, Boston University HEATHER E. DOUGLAS, University of Pittsburgh JEAN GAYON, Université Paris 1 THOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University HUBERT GOENNER, University of Goettingen JOHN HEILBRON, University of California, Berkeley DIANA KORMOS-BUCHWALD, California Institute of Technology CHRISTOPH LEHNER, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science PETER MC LAUGHLIN, Universität Heidelberg AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona NUCCIO ORDINE, Universitá della Calabria ANA SIMÕES, Universidade de Lisboa JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Harvard University BAICHUN ZHANG, Chinese Academy of Science
VOLUME 291 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5710
THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUINE’S PHILOSOPHY
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MURRAY G. MURPHEY Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Murray G. Murphey Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania [email protected]
ISSN 0068-0346 ISBN 978-94-007-2423-5 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2424-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2424-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938948 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to Dean Morse, Harvey Lyon, Deborah Broadnax, Rosemary Cowler and Lillian Schlissel
Preface
This is a book about the development of the philosophy of W. V. Quine. It is not a biography of Quine in any traditional sense. Those interested in the details of Quine’s life should consult his autobiography, The Time of my Life, or his autobiographical sketch in the Library of Living Philosophers volume on Quine. Specifically, I have had almost nothing to say about his life before he entered college; I have omitted his endless traveling from place to place, and I have also omitted the catalogue of the honors he received. All of these are covered in his autobiography, and I have nothing to add. Quine’s published output is enormous. Having read, I believe, all of it, I have dealt with what I believe to be the most important writings. There are several difficulties in doing that. First, given his huge written output, it is hardly surprising that much of it is repetitive. But these seemingly repetitive writings often contain subtle, and not so subt
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