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Word and Object, New Edition by Willard Van Orman Quine (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262518317

ISBN-139780262518314

eBay Product ID (ePID)143505131

Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

Publication NameWord and Object, New Edition

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLanguage, Movements / Analytic, Logic

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

AuthorWillard Van Orman Quine

Subject AreaMathematics, Philosophy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-027957

Preface byFollesdal, Dagfinn

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal121/.68

SynopsisA new edition of Quine's most important work. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what Churchland calls the "phony precision" of conceptual analysis. In the course of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object , in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.

LC Classification NumberB840.Q5 2013