Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One The Early Modern Period
- Part Two The Late Modern Period I
- Chapter 8 Frege
- Chapter 9 The Early Wittgenstein
- Chapter 10 The Later Wittgenstein
- Chapter 11 Carnap
- Chapter 12 Quine
- Chapter 13 Lewis
- Chapter 14 Dummett
- Part Three The Late Modern Period II
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - Quine
The Ne Plus Ultra of Naturalism
from Part Two - The Late Modern Period I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One The Early Modern Period
- Part Two The Late Modern Period I
- Chapter 8 Frege
- Chapter 9 The Early Wittgenstein
- Chapter 10 The Later Wittgenstein
- Chapter 11 Carnap
- Chapter 12 Quine
- Chapter 13 Lewis
- Chapter 14 Dummett
- Part Three The Late Modern Period II
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
From Carnap we proceed naturally to Quine. We can get a good sense of the extraordinarily high esteem in which Quine held Carnap from the homage to Carnap that Quine delivered at a memorial meeting shortly after Carnap’s death. In that homage Quine said:
Carnap is a towering figure. I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onwards…. Some philosophers would assign this role rather to Wittgenstein; but many see the scene as I do. (‘Carnap’, p. 40)
Much of Quine’s own work can be seen as a direct response to Carnap’s. There were parts that he thoroughly espoused and parts that he just as thoroughly opposed, but all of it had a deep and lasting influence on his philosophical thinking.
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- The Evolution of Modern MetaphysicsMaking Sense of Things, pp. 302 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011