Home page for Willard Van Orman Quine, mathematician and philosopher including list of books, articles, essays, students, and travels. Includes links to other Willard Van Orman Quine Internet resources as well as to other Family Web Sites by Douglas Boynton Quine.

Biography of Willard Van Quine (1908-2000) ...

Biography of Willard Van Quine (1908-2000) ...

Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Willard Van Orman Quine. Originally published in The Philosophical Review 60 (1951): 20-43. Reprinted in W.V.O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Harvard University Press, 1953; second, revised, edition 1961), with the following alterations: "The version printed here diverges from the original in footnotes and in other minor respects: 1 and 6 have been abridged where they encroach on the preceding essay, and 3-4 have been expanded at points." Transcribed into hypertext by A

Forthcoming in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Holism, Mental and Semantic Ned Block Department of Philosophy New York University Abstract Mental (or semantic) holism is the doctrine that the identity of a belief content (or the meaning of a sentence that expresses it) is determined by its place in the web of beliefs or sentences comprising a whole theory or group of theories. It can ...

Quine: On What There Is (Web exercise) ...

To appear in Nous, August 1996 Analyticity Reconsidered1 Paul Artin Boghossian New York University I This is what many philosophers believe today about the analytic/synthetic distinction: In his classic early writings on analyticity -- in particular, in Truth by Convention, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, and Carnap and Logical Truth -- Quine showed that there can be no distinction between ...