Word and Object
$87.63
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2013
Summary
A new edition of Quine’s most important work.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, “Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when.” As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy’s turn away from metaph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518314 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518317 |
| Author: | Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Føllesdal |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
About The Author
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 2000. Considered one the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, he is the author of Mathematical Logic, The Roots of Reference, The Time of My Life- An Autobiography (MIT Press), and many other books.Patricia S. Churchland is President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. She is the author of many books, including Neurophilosophy and Brain-Wise (both published by the MIT Press).Dagfinn F llesdal is C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford University.
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