The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays: Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Willard Van Orman Quine

Book Overview

This expanded edition of The Ways of Paradox includes papers that are among Professor W. V. Quine's most important and influential, such as "Truth by Convention," "Carnap and Logical Truth," "On Carnap's Views on Ontology," "The Scope and Language of Science," and "Posits and Reality." Many of these essays deal with unresolved issues of central interest to philosophers today. About half of them are addressed to "a wider public than philosophers."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674948378
• ISBN13: 9780674948372
• Release Date: December 1976
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"