61 Tidy Parsimony

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I Interviews
6. 1 The Ideas of Quine 3
7. 2 The Interview: Willard Van Orman Quine 18
8. 3 Quine Speaks His Mind: Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine 21
9. 4 Philosophy 30
10. 5 W. V. Quine: Perspectives on Logic, Science, and Philosophy 43
11. 6 Twentieth-Century Logic 57
12. 7 Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine 69
13. 8 There Is Always a Further Step 82
14. II Quine on Other Philosophers
15. Correspondence
16. 9 Logical Correspondence with Russell 99
17. Articles
18. 10 Thoughts on Reading Father Owens 113
19. 11 Carnap’s Positivistic Travail 119
20. 12 Events and Reification 129
21. 13 Carnap 142
22. 14 Charles Sanders Peirce 146
23. 15 Let Me Accentuate the Positive 149
24. 16 Exchange between Donald Davidson and W. V. Quine Following Davidson’s Lecture 152
25. 17 Foreword to Kurt Gödel, Unpublished Philosophical Essays 157
26. 18 Where Do We Disagree? 159
27. Reviews
28. 19 Review of Rudolf Carnap’s Logische Syntax der Sprache 167
29. 20 Probability Review of Harold Jeffreys’s Scientific Inference 173
30. 21 Review of Nelson Goodman’s Structure of Appearance 176
31. 22 Review of Peter Thomas Geach’s Reference and Generality 184
32. 23 Review of Imre Lakatos’s Proofs and Refutations 189
33. 24 Review of Derek Bickerton’s Roots of Language 192
34. 25 Review of Charles Parsons’s Mathematics in Philosophy 194
35. 26 Four Hot Questions in Philosophy 206
36. Responses
37. 27 Replies to Professor Riska’s Eight Questions 211
38. 28 Comments on Neil Tennant’s “Carnap and Quine” 216
39. 29 Responses to Articles by Abel, Bergström, Davidson, Dreben, Gibson, Hookway, and Prawitz 223
40. 30 Reactions 235
41. 31 Responses to Essays by Smart, Orenstein, Lewis and Holdcroft, and Haack 251
42. 32 Response to Leemon McHenry 257
43. 33 Responses to Szubka, Lehrer, Bergström, Gibson, Miscevic, and Orenstein 259
44. III Popular Pieces
45. 34 Introducing Piaget 269
46. 35 Mind/Body Problem 273
47. 36 Magna Carta 275
48. 37 On the Map 278
49. 38 Charting the World 280
50. 39 Words Enough 285
51. 40 Skinner Retirement Party 291
52. 41 A Letter to Mr. Ostermann 293
53. 42 Farewell Thanks at Villa Serbelloni, Italy 297
54. 43 Introducing Church 298
55. 44 Introducing Dummett 300
56. 45 Introducing Campbell 301
57. 46 Knights and Knaves 303
58. 47 Introduction to Gail Caldwell Stine Memorial Lecture 306
59. 48 What I Believe 307
60. 49 Sticks and Stones; or, The Ins and Outs of Existence 312
61. 50 Introducing Kripke 325
62. 51 Jean van Heijenoort Memorial 327
63. 52 Books That Mattered to Me 328
64. 53 To a Graduate Student in Philosophy 330
65. 54 Life Is Agid 333
66. 55 Words Are All We Have to Go On (On Philosophers’ Concern with Language) 334
67. 56 Hobbling the Hawkers 340
68. 57 Introducing Shepard 342
69. 58 In Memory of John Finley 344
70. 59 Quine /zkwain/,Willard Van Orman (b. 1908) 346
71. 60 Acceptance Speech for Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences 349
72. 61 Tidy Parsimony 351
73. 62 Advice to the Next Generation 358
74. 63 Farewell to Me 359
75. Credits 361
76. Index 369