The Significance of the New Logic

Willard Van Orman Quine author Walter Carnielli editor Frederique Janssen-Lauret editor William Pickering editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:12th Nov '20

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First full English translation of the Portuguese-language works of W. V. Quine, one of the most influential twentieth-century American philosophers.

Provides philosophers, logicians, and historians with a full translation of Quine's 1942 Portuguese language book, making this crucial stage of his intellectual development available to English speakers. It includes an accompanying historical-philosophical essay setting this work in context and identifying its importance for semantics and ontology.W. V. Quine was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Quine would go on to develop revolutionary ideas about semantic holism and ontology, and this book provides a snapshot of his views on logic and language at a pivotal stage of his intellectual development. The volume also includes an essay on logic which Quine also published in Portuguese, together with an extensive historical-philosophical essay by Frederique Janssen-Lauret. The valuable and previously neglected works first translated in this volume will be essential for scholars of twentieth-century philosophy.

'This volume brings together works by Quine that are of great importance to those interested in the development of 20th-century Anglophone philosophy.' J. A. Fischel, Choice
'… of great value to … researchers and students studying logic in the analytic tradition of philosophy in the United States.' Jason Wakefield, Grammar Language and Linguistics

ISBN: 9781316631164

Dimensions: 150mm x 225mm x 15mm

Weight: 320g

216 pages