The Philosopher
Willard van Orman Quine
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- American
- Schools:
- Analytic philosophy
- Branchs:
- Logic, Set theory, Ontology, Epistemology, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of science
- Period:
- 20th-century philosophy
The synopsis
The works
On What There Is
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
The Web of Belief
Word and Object
Elementary Logic
Methods of Logic
Philosophy of Logic
Mathematical Logic
A System of Logistic
Set Theory and Its Logic
Selected Logic Papers
The Ways of Paradox
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
The Roots of Reference
Theories and Things
The Time of My Life: An Autobiography
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary
Pursuit of Truth
From Stimulus to Science
Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W V Quine
Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays
The quotes
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.