A Companion to W. V. O. Quine (Hardcover)

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Life and Work 1
Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore

Part I Method 15

1 Quine and Epistemology 17
Thomas Kelly

2 Quine and the A Priori 38
Lars Bergström

3 Quine and Pragmatism 54
Peter Godfrey-Smith

4 Quine's Relationship with Analytic Philosophy 69
Gary Kemp

5 Quine on Paraphrase and Regimentation 89
Adam Sennet and Tyrus Fisher

6 Quine's Naturalism 114
Alan Weir

7 Quine's Naturalism Revisited 148
Peter Hylton

Part II Language 163

8 Inscrutability Scrutinized 165
Alex Orenstein

9 Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction 181
Gillian Russell

10 Quine, Analyticity, and Transcendence 203
Ernie Lepore

11 Indeterminacy, Relativity, and Behaviorism 219
Gilbert Harman

12 Indeterminacy of Translation 236
Peter Pagin

13 Developments in Quine's Behaviorism 263
Dagfinn Føllesdal

Part III Logic, Mathematics, Science 279

14 Quine's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 281
John P. Burgess

15 Bolzano, Quine, and Logical Truth 296
Sandra Lapointe

16 Quine on Observationality 313
Olav Gjelsvik

17 Observation 333
Bredo C. Johnsen

18 Quine on Evidence 350
Robert Sinclair

19 Quine on Reference and Quantification 373
Michael Glanzberg

Part IV Relation to Other Philosophers 401

20 Quine and Russell 403
Gary Ostertag

21 The Place of Quine in Analytic Philosophy 432
Scott Soames

22 Quine's Naturalistic Explication of Carnap's Logic of Science 465
Gary Ebbs

23 Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of Language 483
Barry C. Smith

24 Quine's Conception of Explication – and Why It Isn't Carnap's 508
Martin Gustafsson

25 The Relation between Quine and Davidson 526
Hans-Johann Glock

26 Quine and the Revival of Metaphysics 552
Gideon Rosen

Name Index 571

Subject Index 576