Collected Works of Quine (Volume 6)

Author: Tu Jiliang, Chen Bo, Editors
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Publish Date: 2007-01-31
Features: This volume includes four works: Theory and Things (1981), Some Strangely Funny Ideas—A Discontinuous Dictionary of Philosophy (1987), The Pursuit of Truth (1990), and From Stimulus to Science (1995). All of these are Quine's later works. The first and second volumes are collections of essays. The former includes 26 essays that explore issues in ontology, epistemology, semantics, and logic; the latter contains 83 short pieces covering various fields such as philosophy, logic, mathematics, and linguistics, arranged in alphabetical order. The author calls it a discontinuous dictionary of philosophy. The third and fourth volumes are Quine's late works with a summarizing nature, addressing almost all important themes and viewpoints in Quine's philosophy.