Full name: From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays

Author: Willard Van Orman Quine Year: 1951 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780674323513 0674323513

These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and referencesâe"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 us in accepting or revising such ontological commitments? These are among the questions dealt with in this book, particular attention being devoted to the role of abstract entities in mathematics. There is speculation on the mechanism whereby objects of one sort or another come to be posited, a process in which the notion of identity plays an important part. Similar books: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer Word and Object by Willard Van Orman Quine Mythologies by Roland Barthes Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch The Space of Literature by Maurice Blanchot The Transparency of Evil by Jean Baudrillard Art as Experience by John Dewey The Form of Things by A. C. Grayling The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan Philosophical Essays by Bertrand Russell The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco