Лучшие книги Уилларда ван Ормана Куайна

Очередной выпуск библиотеки аналитической философии предлагает русскоязычному читателю ознакомиться с одной из наиболее известных работ У.Куайна, в которой осуществляется попытка синтеза американского прагматизма с методами аналитической философии. Для философов, логиков, лингвистов.

Книга представляет собой первое опубликованное на русском языке издание избранных работ крупнейшеrо аналитическоro философа ХХ века Уилларда Ван Ормана Куайна. Публикуемая в данном издании основополагающая работа американскоrо философа "Слово и объект" внесла оrромный вклад в философию языка. Книга будет интересна не только для философов, но также и для лингвистов, психологов, специалистов в области коrнитивных наук и всех, кто интересуется современной философией. В приложении к книге публикуются статьи У.Куайна – "О том, что есть", "Две догмы эмпиризма" и "Натурализованная эпистемология"

В книге классика аналитической философии У.В.О.Куайна "От стимула к науке" рассматривается проблема формирования теоретического знания. Куайн показывает, каким образом, начиная со стимульных раздражений рецепторов, которые фиксируются в предложениях наблюдения, через посредство логико-математического аппарата формируется развитая структура научной теории. При описании этого процесса Куайн прибегает к своим широко известным идеям: холизм, онтологическая относительность, семантическое восхождение.

Книга будет интересна философам, логикам, лингвистам.

Книга представляет собой классическое введение в совокупность вопросов, связанных с философской интерпретацией результатов современной формальной логики, ее основных понятий и методов. Для философов, логиков, лингвистов.

Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved in translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. He argues that the notion of a language-transcendent "sentence-meaning" must on the whole be rejected; meaningful studies in the semantics of reference can only be directed toward substantially the same language in which they are conducted.

Монография У.Куайна "Преследуя истину" посвящена классическим философским вопросам об источниках и способах формирования достоверного знания. Вопросы об истинности знания рассматриваются в широком контексте стандартных проблем аналитической философии языка, связанных с референцией и пропозициональными установками. При решении этих проблем Куайн прибегает к своим широко известным идеям: холизм, неопределенность перевода, семантическое восхождение. Книга будет интересна философам, логикам, лингвистам.

"Some Pow'r did us the giftie grant / To see oursels as others can't." With that play on Burns' famous line as a preface, Willard Van Orman Quine sets out to spin the yarn of his life so far. And it is a gift indeed to see one of the world's most famous philosophers as no one else has seen him before. To catch an intimate glimpse of his seminal and controversial theories of philosophy, logic, and language as they evolved, and to hear his warm and often amusing comments on famous contemporary philosophers. From his beginnings in Akron, Ohio in the early 1900s, Quine takes us on a tour of over 100 countries over three-quarters of a century, including close observations of the Depression and two world wars. Far from a philosophical tract, it is an ebullient, folksy account of a richly varied and rounded life. When he does dip into philosophy, it is generally of the armchair sort, and laced with a gentle good humor. In this book, Quine approaches the details of his life the way he has always approached them with a sharp sense of interest, adventure and fun. And he has a skill for picking a word that is just off-center enough to pull an ordinary event out of the humdrum of daily life and evoke its personal meaning. The result is a book of memories that is utterly mesmerizing. Willard Van Orman Quine is the author of numerous books, including Word and Object, published by The MIT Press in 1960.

"There is that which one wants to do for the glory of having done it, and there is that which one wants to do for the joy of doing it. One can want to be a scientist because he wants to see himself as a Darwin or an Einstein, and one can want to be a scientist because he is curious about what makes things tick... In normal cases the two kinds of motivation are in time brought to terms... In me the glory motive lingered...". Willard Van Orman Quine

This is a book to be savored, with a little something for a surprisingly wide variety of tastes. Here is Quine on the marvels of The Times Atlas, the virtues and vices of Mencken's The American Language, the mixed blessings that result from flush times for academia, and the bleariness of Mortimer Adler's vision of philosophy. Of course, Quine's more familiar concerns are also represented, with most of the book's twenty-six essays being devoted to various aspects of ontology, epistemology, semantics, and logic...Together they make a wonderful selection of fine, sparkling Quine.

This is an extensively revised edition of Mr.Quine's introduction to abstract set theory and to various axiomatic systematizations of the subject. The treatment of ordinal numbers has been strengthened and much simplified, especially in the theory of transfinite recursions, by adding an axiom and reworking the proofs. Infinite cardinals are treated anew in clearer and fuller terms than before.

Improvements have been made all through the book; in various instances a proof has been shortened, a theorem strengthened, a space-saving lemma inserted, an obscurity clarified, an error corrected, a historical omission supplied, or a new event noted.