Gilbert Harman is James S. McDonnell DistinguishedUniversity Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He haswritten broadly about W.V.O. Quine's philosophy, and much ofhis research shows Quine's influence, includingThought (1973), Change in View (1986) andReasoning, Meaning, and Mind (1999). He is also editor ofSemantics of Natural Language (with Donald Davidson, 1970)and The Logic of Grammar (1975). Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitivescientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Centerfor Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He isthe co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned on Itself(2007). He is editor of The Oxford Handbook ofPhilosophy of Language (with Barry C. Smith, 2006) and generaleditor of the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophers and TheirCritics.
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Life and Work 1
Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore
Part I Method 15
1 Quine and Epistemology 17
Thomas Kelly
2 Quine and the A Priori 38
Lars Bergström
3 Quine and Pragmatism 54
Peter Godfrey-Smith
4 Quine's Relationship with Analytic Philosophy 69
Gary Kemp
5 Quine on Paraphrase and Regimentation 89
Adam Sennet and Tyrus Fisher
6 Quine's Naturalism 114
Alan Weir
7 Quine's Naturalism Revisited 148
Peter Hylton
Part II Language 163
8 Inscrutability Scrutinized 165
Alex Orenstein
9 Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction 181
Gillian Russell
10 Quine, Analyticity, and Transcendence 203
Ernie Lepore
11 Indeterminacy, Relativity, and Behaviorism 219
Gilbert Harman
12 Indeterminacy of Translation 236
Peter Pagin
13 Developments in Quine's Behaviorism 263
Dagfinn Føllesdal
Part III Logic, Mathematics, Science 279
14 Quine's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 281
John P. Burgess
15 Bolzano, Quine, and Logical Truth 296
Sandra Lapointe
16 Quine on Observationality 313
Olav Gjelsvik
17 Observation 333
Bredo C. Johnsen
18 Quine on Evidence 350
Robert Sinclair
19 Quine on Reference and Quantification 373
Michael Glanzberg
Part IV Relation to Other Philosophers 401
20 Quine and Russell 403
Gary Ostertag
21 The Place of Quine in Analytic Philosophy 432
Scott Soames
22 Quine's Naturalistic Explication of Carnap's Logic of Science465
Gary Ebbs
23 Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of Language 483
Barry C. Smith
24 Quine's Conception of Explication - and Why It Isn'tCarnap's 508
Martin Gustafsson
25 The Relation between Quine and Davidson 526
Hans-Johann Glock
26 Quine and the Revival of Metaphysics 552
Gideon Rosen
Name Index 571
Subject Index 576
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