Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine

The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures

Robert Sinclair editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:2nd Mar '19

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In this book, W. V. Quine’s Immanuel Kant Lectures entitled Science and Sensibilia are published for the first time in English.  These lectures represent an important stage in the development of Quine’s later thought, where he is more explicit about the importance of physicalist constraints in his account of the steps from sensory stimulation to scientific theory, and in further using them to assess the extent to which mental vocabulary is defensible. 

Taken as a unit, these lectures fill an important gap in our understanding of his philosophical development from his 1973 work The Roots of Reference to his later work.  The volume further contains an introduction that outlines the content and philosophical significance of the lectures. In addition, several essays written by leading scholars of Quine’s philosophy provide further insight into the important issues raised in the lectures.

“Any graduate student, and especially scholars of the history of analytic philosophy, would like to have it on their bookshelves. Whether working on either logical empiricism or the late Wittgenstein, this book will frequently be encountered.” (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Diametros, November 15, 2019)

ISBN: 9783030049089

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210 pages

1st ed. 2019