Works of Quine, Volume 1

Author: Tu Jiliang, Chen Bo (editors)
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Publish Date: 2007-02-12
Features: This volume includes two works: "Willard Van Orman Quine's Autobiography" (1986) and "Mathematical Logic" (1940). The former is a concise autobiography written by Quine for the "Philosophy of Quine" volume of the "Living Philosophers" series; the latter is one of Quine's important logical works, in which he still adheres to the program of logicism, attempting to derive mathematics from logic. He modifies the NF system proposed in the earlier paper "New Foundations for Mathematical Logic" (1937) into the ML system, which is a unified system combining propositional logic, quantification theory, and set theory. It has a simple structure and peculiar characteristics.