Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W. V. Quine

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It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im­ portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com­ menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T. Front Matter....Pages I-VII Editorial Introduction....Pages 1-2 Quine’s Philosophy of Science....Pages 3-13 An Introduction to ‘Translation and Meaning’ Chapter Two of Word and Object ....Pages 14-26 Beginning with Ordinary Things....Pages 27-52 Quine’s Empirical Assumptions....Pages 53-68 Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation....Pages 69-81 Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation....Pages 82-96 Singular Terms and Predication....Pages 97-117 Vacuous Names....Pages 118-145 Quine’s Syntactical Insights....Pages 146-157 On Saying That....Pages 158-174 Quine on Modality....Pages 175-185 Some Problems About Belief....Pages 186-205 Quantifying In 1 ....Pages 206-242 Logic with Platonism....Pages 243-277 On the Consistency of a Slight (?) Modification of Quine’s New Foundations ....Pages 278-291 Replies....Pages 292-352 Back Matter....Pages 353-373