Author: | Murray Murphey | ISBN: | 9789400724242 |
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | Publication: | December 22, 2011 |
Imprint: | Springer | Language: | English |
Author: | Murray Murphey |
ISBN: | 9789400724242 |
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
Publication: | December 22, 2011 |
Imprint: | Springer |
Language: | English |
This book covers W. V. Quine's philosophic career from his early radical empiricism and behaviorism through his development of a series of skeptical doctrines regarding meaning, reference, and science. It shows what problems he tried to solve and what his solutions were. Result has been a series of highly controversial claims that have won him international fame. His work is still a center of controversy and has lead to an enormous literature of commentary.
This book covers W. V. Quine's philosophic career from his early radical empiricism and behaviorism through his development of a series of skeptical doctrines regarding meaning, reference, and science. It shows what problems he tried to solve and what his solutions were. Result has been a series of highly controversial claims that have won him international fame. His work is still a center of controversy and has lead to an enormous literature of commentary.