Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- 1 Aspects of Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology
- 2 Quine on the Intelligibility and Relevance of Analyticity
- 3 Quine’s Meaning Holisms
- 4 Underdetermination of Physical Theory
- 5 Quine on Reference and Ontology
- 6 Indeterminacy of Translation
- 7 Quine’s Behaviorism cum Empiricism
- 8 Quine on Modality
- 9 Quine and Logical Positivism
- 10 Quine and Logic
- 11 Quine on Quine
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
11 - Quine on Quine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- 1 Aspects of Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology
- 2 Quine on the Intelligibility and Relevance of Analyticity
- 3 Quine’s Meaning Holisms
- 4 Underdetermination of Physical Theory
- 5 Quine on Reference and Ontology
- 6 Indeterminacy of Translation
- 7 Quine’s Behaviorism cum Empiricism
- 8 Quine on Modality
- 9 Quine and Logical Positivism
- 10 Quine and Logic
- 11 Quine on Quine
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Editor’s note: Burton Dreben’s unique contribution to this volume merits an explanation. Several years ago, when this volume was conceived, I consulted with Professor Quine about whom I might invite to write an essay about Quine on truth. He recommended Dreben; subsequently Professor Dreben accepted the invitation. Sadly, however, he died of lymphoma on July 11, 1999, at the age of 71, and without completing the essay on truth. Shortly before Burt’s death, however, Professor Quine, Professor Ernest Lepore, and I were dinner guests at the home of Burt and his wife, Juliet Floyd, in Boston. Sometime that evening Burt handed me a folder containing his essay “Quine on Quine.” Burt had written the essay for presentation at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, which was held in Boston in the summer of 1998. The essay appears here in the exact form in which I received it. Burt was more than the world’s leading expert on Quine’s philosophy, he was Quine’s favorite sounding board, and at times Quine’s bulldog. He will be sorely missed.
W. V. Quine, who turned ninety on June 25, has been central to the analytic tradition in philosophy for more than sixty years. A sign of his centrality is that one of the three award-winning essays at the special APA session on American Philosophy from Other Perspectives - a session to which Quine must soon go in order to comment on the essay - is devoted to him and Carnap. A second paper is on John Rawls, Quine’s Harvard colleague of many years, and who acknowledged Quine’s influence on him in the preface to A Theory of Justice.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Quine , pp. 287 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004