Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Softcover

Kemp, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826484875 ISBN 13: 9780826484871

Publisher: Continuum, 2006

Synopsis

Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. No serious student of modern analytic philosophy can afford to ignore Quine's work.  Yet there is no doubt that it presents a considerable challenge. The book offers clear explication and analysis of Quine's writings and ideas in all those areas of philosophy to which he contributed (except technical matters in logic). Quine's work is set in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism.  Detailed attention is paid to Word and Object, Quine's seminal text, and to his important theories on the nature of truth, knowledge and reality.  This text presents an account of Quine's
philosophy as a unified whole, identifying and exploring the themes and approaches common to his seemingly disparate concerns, and showing this to be the key to understanding fully the work of this major modern thinker.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

Review:

Mention in The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 25 2007 (Alex Orenstein Times Higher Education Supplement)

Mention in The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 25 2007 (Sanford Lakoff Times Higher Education Supplement)

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826484875
• ISBN 13: 9780826484871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208