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Title: WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE (1908-2000).(Obituary)
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: 54Issue: 1Page: 245

Article Type: Obituary, Bibliography

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Chapters: Willard Van Orman Quine, Brand Blanshard, T. K. Seung, Fred Newman, Melville Y. Stewart, Clarence Irving Lewis, John Corcoran, Kent Bach, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Nelson Goodman, Steven Heine, Barbara Forrest, William A. Earle, James M. Edie, G. Stanley Hall, William S. Hatcher, Ron Mcclamrock, Roderick Chisholm, Robert C. Solomon, John Daniel Wild, Geoffrey Sayre-Mccord, Daniel N. Robinson, Christopher Cherniak, Keith Lehrer, Barrie Karp, John Hiram Lathrop, Kermit Scott, Quentin Smith, Peter Wenz, Paul Woodruff, Jeffrey Nielsen, William Lycan, Henry Babcock Veatch, David Loy, Irwin Edman, Arnold Davidson, Jay Rosenberg, Kathleen Higgins, Robert Allinson, Louis H. Mackey, Richard Hanley, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Bonnie Steinbock, Richard Taylor, Arthur F. Holmes, Carl Elliott, Jesse Mann, Peter Railton, Harold F. Cherniss, T. M. Scanlon, Norman Kretzmann, Bruce Wilshire, Joseph Leon Blau, Susan Wolf, Grace de Laguna, Keith Yandell, Michael Friedman, Jon Mandle, Elmer Sprague, Howard Kainz, John Seiler Brubacher, Andrew Eshleman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 254. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: T. K. Seung (Thomas Kaehao Seung) was born on September 20, 1930, in Jungju, Korea. His academic interests cut across diverse philosophical and literary subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural hermeneutics, and ancient Chinese philosophy. He is presently the Jesse H. Jones Professor in Liberal Arts, at the University of Texas at Austin. T. K. Seung was born on September 20, 1930, the eldest of three children, near the city of Jungju in the Pyeonganbukdo province of Korea. He attended Jungju Middle School, where he was exposed to Western-style education. In 1947, he escaped from North Korea, crossing the 38th parallel with a few friends. H...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15260177 ... Read more

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This expanded edition of The Ways of Paradox includes papers that are among Professor Quine's most important and influential, such as "Truth by Convention," "Carnap and Logical Truth," "On Carnap's Views on Ontology," "The Scope and Language of Science," and "Posits and Reality." Many of these essays deal with unresolved issues of central interest to philosophers today. About half of them are addressed to "a wider public than philosophers." The remainder are somewhat more professional and technical. This new edition of The Ways of Paradox contains eight essays that appeared after publication of the first edition, and it retains the seminal essays that must be read by anyone who seeks to master Quine's philosophy.

Quine has been characterized, in The New York Review of Books, as "the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank." His "philosophical innovations add up to a coherent theory of knowledge which he has for the most part constructed single-handed." In The Ways of Paradox new generations of readers will gain access to this philosophy.