A Companion to W. V. O. Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine, often referred to as the twentieth–century’s ‘Father of American Philosophy’, was the most influential analytic philosopher in the United States during the latter part of the century. Celebrated for his arguments against logical empiricism, his prolific contributions span across many areas of philosophy, covering mathematical logic, philosophy of language, ontology and metaphysics, and epistemology, and continue to have significant resonance within the discipline today. A Companion to W.V.O. Quine brings together original contributions by a team of leading figures within contemporary philosophy. The essays provide an in–depth exposition and analysis of Quine’s influence across the discipline’s many subfields; they assess his numerous contributions, highlighting the breadth of his work, and revealing his continued relevance within the philosophical community. Covering the areas of method, language, logic, mathematics and science, and Quine’s relation to other philosophers, the volume will be of significance to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as professional philosophers seeking an overview and a critical discussion of Quine’s work.

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Life and Work 1 Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore Part I Method 15 1 Quine and Epistemology 17 Thomas Kelly 2 Quine and the A Priori 38 Lars Bergström 3 Quine and Pragmatism 54 Peter Godfrey–Smith 4 Quine′s Relationship with Analytic Philosophy 69 Gary Kemp 5 Quine on Paraphrase and Regimentation 89 Adam Sennet and Tyrus Fisher 6 Quine′s Naturalism 114 Alan Weir 7 Quine′s Naturalism Revisited 148 Peter Hylton Part II Language 163 8 Inscrutability Scrutinized 165 Alex Orenstein 9 Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction 181 Gillian Russell 10 Quine, Analyticity, and Transcendence 203 Ernie Lepore 11 Indeterminacy, Relativity, and Behaviorism 219 Gilbert Harman 12 Indeterminacy of Translation 236 Peter Pagin 13 Developments in Quine′s Behaviorism 263 Dagfinn Føllesdal Part III Logic, Mathematics, Science 279 14 Quine′s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 281 John P. Burgess 15 Bolzano, Quine, and Logical Truth 296 Sandra Lapointe 16 Quine on Observationality 313 Olav Gjelsvik 17 Observation 333 Bredo C. Johnsen 18 Quine on Evidence 350 Robert Sinclair 19 Quine on Reference and Quantification 373 Michael Glanzberg Part IV Relation to Other Philosophers 401 20 Quine and Russell 403 Gary Ostertag 21 The Place of Quine in Analytic Philosophy 432 Scott Soames 22 Quine′s Naturalistic Explication of Carnap′s Logic of Science 465 Gary Ebbs 23 Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of Language 483 Barry C. Smith 24 Quine′s Conception of Explication – and Why It Isn′t Carnap′s 508 Martin Gustafsson 25 The Relation between Quine and Davidson 526 Hans–Johann Glock 26 Quine and the Revival of Metaphysics 552 Gideon Rosen Name Index 571 Subject Index 576

Gilbert Harman is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He has written broadly about W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, and much of his research shows Quine’s influence, including Thought (1973), Change in View (1986) and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind (1999). He is also editor of Semantics of Natural Language (with Donald Davidson, 1970) and The Logic of Grammar (1975).  Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co–author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Wiley–Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned on Itself (2007). He is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with Barry C. Smith, 2006) and general editor of the Wiley–Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics.