Quine, Structure, and Ontology

W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. This volume provides a full picture of the development of Quine's views on structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range of philosophical questions.

List of contents

• 1: Frederique Janssen-Lauret: Introduction 


• 2: Michael Resnik : Quines Non-ontological Structuralism (and Mine)


• 3: Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Fraser MacBride: W.V. Quine and David Lewis: Structural (Epistemological) Humility


• 4: John Collins: Quine on Ontological Commitment in Light of Predicate-Functor Logic


• 5: Jaroslav Peregrin: Inscrutability of Reference and Quines Structuralism


• 6: Paul Gregory: Quines Deaationary Structuralism 


• 7: Greg Frost-Arnold: The Ontogeny of Quines Ontology: Pythagoreanism, Nominalism, and the Role of Clarity


• 8: Robert Sinclair: Quines Structural Holism and the Constitutive A Priori


• 9: Gary Kemp and Andrew Lugg: Quine on Ontology: Chapter 7 of Word and Object


• 10: Nathan Salmon: On What Exists


• 11: Gila Sher: Quine vs. Quine 


• 12: Marianna Antonutti Marfori: A New Look at Quine on Set Theory


• 13: Natalja Deng: What Quine (and Carnap) Might Say About Contemporary Meta-physics of Time

About the author

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specialising in philosophical logic and the history of analytic philosophy. She is co-translator of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (Cambridge 2018) and co-editor of Quine and His Place in History (Palgrave 2015). She has also published papers on Quine in Synthese and The Monist.

Summary

W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. This volume provides a full picture of the development of Quine's views on structure and how it permeates and shapes his attitude to a range of philosophical questions.

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Product details

• Authors: Frederique (Lecturer in Philosophy Janssen-Lauret
• Assisted by: Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Editor), Janssen-Lauret Frederique (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2020
• EAN: 9780198864288
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886428-8
• No. of pages: 317
• Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge